Exam 3: Icd-10-Cm Coding Conventions

In ICD-10-CM a placeholder of ___ is used at certain 6 character codes to allow for future expansion.

A structured list of codes divided into chapters based on body system or condition is known as the ____________________ List of Diseases and Injuries.

The "Excludes" notes give examples of the content of a section of the code book.

When the term ____________________ is used in a narrative statement, it represents and/or.

The "See also:" note refers the coder to another location in the Index when the initial listing does not contain all the necessary information to accurately select a code.

For reporting purposes, only codes are permissible, not categories or subcategories, and any applicable ____________________ character is required.

Colons are used after an incomplete term to identify nonessential modifiers.

All instructional notes that appear in the Index and Tabular must be read and used as a guide when selecting codes.

The ____________________ for the ICD-10-CM are the general rules for use of the classification independent of the guidelines.

The "Excludes 2" note represents all of the following except that _____.

In ICD-10-CM the ____________________Index is an alphabetical list of terms and their corresponding code.

The ____________________ abbreviation in the Index represents "other specified" when a specific code is not available for a condition and the Index directs the coder to the "other specified" code in the Tabular.

Parentheses are used in _____.

The point dash signals to the coder that _____.

Codes titled ____________________ are for use when the information in the medical record is insufficient to assign a more specific code.

The word "with" in the Alphabetic Index is sequenced immediately following the main term, not in ____________________ order.

The note "Includes" _____.

The "Excludes 1" note _____.

The "Use additional code" _____.

The "code first" note is used _____.