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100

What is the code for a patient diagnosed with Parathyphoid Fever A?

A01.1

100

How many characters a required to complete code assignments for category B55?

Four (4)

100


What does the yellow shaded convention symbol represent?

Unspecified Codes

100

What does the back triangle represent next to a code? 

Revised code title

100

What does category A52 Represent?

Late Syphillis

200

What is the code for a patient diagnosed with whooping cough due to Bordetella Species with Pneumonia?

A37.81

200


What type of codes do we find in categories B90-B94?

Sequelae of infectious and parasitic diseases.

200


What does the gray shaded convention symbol represent when a provider specifies a condition that we do not have a specific code for?

Other Specified Code

200

When you see the use additional symbol, are those codes primary or secondary?

Secondary

200

What category does B37 represent?

candidiasis

300

What is the code for a patient diagnosed with St. Louis Encepahlitis?

A83.3

300

Based upon the special notes regarding smallpox-Code B03, what happened to this diagnosis in 1980?

It was eradicated.

300

What does the blue shaded convention symbol represent?

Manifestation Code

300

What does the asterix symbol represent/

New Text

300

What Category does B95 Represent?

Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, & Enterococcus

400

Per the convention following a diagnosis of Histoplasmosis, which code has to be coded first?

B20

400

Verruca Simplex

Verruca Vulgaris

Viral warts due to human papillomavirus

Per the convention following a diagnosis of viral warts, name one of the three conditions included in this category of codes.

400


What does the black shaded convention symbol represent?

Not coded here unless the two conditions are unrelated.

400

What symbol is found in the tabular alerting coders that that particular code has guidelines associated with it? 

The blue eye

400

What condition do we find at subcategory B97.4

Respiratory Syncytial Virus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

500

Per the excludes 2 note found at relapsing fever, what other disease should be coded if applicable?

A69.2-

500


Per the excludes note found at Dengue fever, what other condition cannot be coded?


dengue hemorrhagic fever (A91)

500


What does the blue 7th character convention symbol represent?

Extension X alert /X has to be added in order to make the code valid or complete

500

What does the TIP convention provide?

Coding Guidance

500

What diagnostic conditions are covered between categories B35-B49?

Mycoses