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Basic Guidelines
Comparison 9 to 10
New Features
The First Character
Symbols
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The basic coding guidelines used in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM are very similiar?

What is True?

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Number of characters in a ICD-9-CM code compared to a ICD-10-CM code?
What is three to five versus three to seven?
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ICD-10-CM has added RT/LT/Bilateral to certain codes for increased specification, this defines....
What is added laterality?
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Codes that start with the letters A00-B99
What is certain infectious and parasitic diseases
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Symbols are used in both the ICD-10-CM index and tabular ?
What is True??
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Codes that describe symptoms or signs, as opposed to diagnosis, are acceptable for reporting purposes if one of these has not been established by the provider...

What is a definitive diagnosis?

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ICD-9-CM codes are always numeric, ICD-10-CM codes can be?
What are alpha and numeric characters?
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This character indicates episode of care....
What is a seventh character extension?
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Codes that start with the letters E
What is The endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases E00-E90.
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What is used in both the alphabetic index and the tabular list to enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease without affecting the code number to which it is assigned..
What are parenthesis () ? Example-Anemia (essential)(general)(hemoglobin)(infantile)(primary)(profound)
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If the same code is described as both acute (subacute) and chronic and separate _____ exist in the alphabetic index at the same indentation level, code both and sequence the acute (subacute) code first.

What are subentries? Example- Failure Renal N19 Acute N17.9 Chronic N18.9

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The first character in a ICD-10-CM code is? The second through seventh are?
What is a alpha character for the first A numeric number for the second and alpha or numeric for the other characters
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These are included in many ICD-10-CM obstetrics codes which were not included in ICD-9-CM...
What are trimester?
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Codes that start with the letter G
What is diseases of the nervous system?
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Used in the tabular list to enclose synonyms, alternative wordings, or explanatory phrases.
What are Brackets? B06 Rubella [German measles are in square brackets]
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There is no________defined as to when a late effect code can or cannot be used..

What is a time limit?

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Sense Organs (eye, ear) are in the nervous diseases and conditions in ICD-9. Where are they in ICD-10?
What is their own chapters 7&8?
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Late effect in ICD 9 is called what in ICD 10?
What is Sequela?
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Codes that start with the letter Q
What is congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities?
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This symbol is used in the tabular list after an incomplete term which needs one or more of the modifiers following it to make it assignable to a given category.
What is a colon : ? Example-G73.7 Myopathy in disease classified elsewhere Excludes1:Myopathy in: rheumatoid arthritis (M05.032) Sarcoidosis (D86.87) scleroderma (M34.82) sicca syndrome (sjogren) (M35.03) systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.19)
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This code is never used with a code for the late effect...

What is an acute phase of an illness or injury that led to the late effect?

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What letter of the alphabet is not currently being used in ICD-10-CM?
What is the letter U?
500
Added standard definition for two types of excludes notes, one indicating "not included here".
What is an excludes 2 note?
500
Codes that begin with the letter N? Codes that begin with the letter K?
What are diseases of the genitourinary system and diseases of the digestive system?
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Used in the alphabetic and tabular list at the end of a code number to indicate that a code is incomplete...
What is a dash -? Example- Fracture, pathologic ankle M84.47- carpus M84.44-