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Basic Guidelines
Comparison 9 to 10
New Features
The First Character
Symbols
100
The basic coding guidelines used in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM are very similiar?
What is True?
100
How many characters are in a ICD-9-CM code compared to a ICD-10-CM code?
What is three to five versus three to seven?
100
ICD-10-CM has added RT/LT/Bilateral to certain codes for increased specification, this defines....
What is added laterality?
100
Codes that start with the letters A00-B99
What is "Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases"?
100
Symbols are used in both the ICD-10-CM index and tabular ?
What is True?
200
Codes that describe symptoms or signs are acceptable for reporting purposes, if one of these has not been established by the provider...
What is a definitive diagnosis?
200
ICD-9-CM codes are always numeric, ICD-10-CM codes are...
What are alpha and numeric characters?
200
This character indicates episode of care....
What is a seventh character extension?
200
Codes that start with the letters E
What is the "Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases" E00-E90.
200
The supplementary words within parentheses in the Alphabetic Index and the Tabular List are called...
What are nonessential modifiers? Example-Anemia (essential)(general)(hemoglobin)(infantile)(primary)(profound)
300
If the same code is described as both acute and chronic and separate _____ exist in the alphabetic index at the same indentation level, code both and sequence the acute code first.
What are subentries? Example- Failure Renal N19 Acute N17.9 Chronic N18.9
300
The 1st character in a ICD-10-CM code is alpha. The 2nd character is .... The 3rd through 7th characters are ...
What is numeric for the 2nd character? What is alpha or numeric for the 3rd through 7th characters?
300
These are included in many ICD-10-CM obstetrics codes which were not included in ICD-9-CM...
What are trimester?
300
Codes that start with the letter G
What is diseases of the "Diseases of the Nervous System?
300
Used in the tabular list to enclose synonyms, alternative wordings, or explanatory phrases.
What are Brackets? B06 Rubella [German measles]
400
There is no________defined as to when a late effect code can or cannot be used..
What is a time limit?
400
Sense Organs (eye, ear) are in the nervous diseases and conditions in ICD-9. Which chapter(s) are they in for ICD-10?
What is the 7th and 8th chapters?
400
Late effect in ICD 9 is called what in ICD 10?
What is Sequela?
400
Codes that start with the letter Q
What is "Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities"?
400
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)
500
ICD-10-CM presumes a cause-and-effect relationship between ________________ and chronic kidney disease...
What is hypertension?
500
What letter of the alphabet is not currently being used in ICD-10-CM?
What is the letter U?
500
Which "Excludes Notes" definition represents "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"?
500
Used in the Alphabetic Index 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-