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These ________________ are incorporated within the Alphabetic Index and Tabular List of the ICD--CM
as instructional notes - ✔✔conventions
The convention
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These ________________ are incorporated within the Alphabetic Index and Tabular List of the ICD--CM
as instructional notes - ✔✔conventions
The conventions and instructions of the classification take precedence over ______________________ -
✔✔guidelines
The ______________ ___________________ is an alphabetical list of terms and their corresponding
code. - ✔✔Alphabetic Index
The ________ ______________ is a structured list of codes divided into chapters based on body system
or condition. - ✔✔Tabular Index
The Alphabetic Index consists of what four parts? - ✔✔- Index of Diseases and Injury
- Index of External Causes of Injury
- Table of Neoplasms
- Table of Drugs and Chemicals
The ICD-10-CM Tabular List contains categories, ______________, and codes. - ✔✔categories,
subcategories, and codes
Characters for categories, subcategories, and codes in the ICD-10-CM Tabular List may be either a
____________ or a _____________. - ✔✔letter or number
A _____________ character category that has no further subdivision is equivalent to a code. - ✔✔three
Subcategories are either _____________ or _______________ categories - ✔✔4 or 5
Codes may be 3,4,5,6, or 7 _____________________. - ✔✔characters
Each level of subdivision after a category is a ___________________. - ✔✔subcategory
The final level of subdivision is a __________________. - ✔✔code
Codes that have applicable 7th characters are still referred to as codes, not ___________________. -
✔✔subcategories
A code that has an applicable 7th character is considered ___________without the 7th character. -
✔✔invalid
The ICD-10-CM coding system uses an _____________ format for ease in reference. - ✔✔indented
ICD-10-CM utilizes a placeholder character _____________. - ✔✔"X"
The placeholder ___________________ is used as a placeholder for future __________________. -
✔✔"X" expansion
For reporting purposes only ____________________ are permissible, not categories or subcategories,
and any applicable 7th character is required. - ✔✔codes
When a placeholder exists, the X must be used in order for the code to be considered a
______________________ code. - ✔✔valid
NEC - ✔✔Not Elsewhere Classified
NEC represents ____________________ - ✔✔Other specified
When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Alphabetic Index directs the coder to the
______________ _______________ code in the Tabular List. - ✔✔other specified
NOS - ✔✔Not otherwise specified
NOS is the equivalent of ______________________. - ✔✔Unspecified
NOS and NEC mean the same thing in both the Alphabetic Index and the ______________
__________________. - ✔✔Tabular List
________________ are used in the Tabular List to enclose synonyms, alternative wording, or
explanatory phrases. - ✔✔brackets
____________________ are used in the Alphabetic Index to indicate manifestation codes. - ✔✔brackets
_____________________ are 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 or procedure without
affecting the code number to which it is assigned. - ✔✔Parenthesis
The terms within the parenthesis are referred to as ___________________ _______________________.
- ✔✔nonessential modifiers
_________________ _____________________ in the Alphabetic Index to Diseases apply to subterms
following a main term except when a _____________ ______________________ and a subentry are
mutually exclusive, the subentry takes precedence. For example, in ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index, under
the main term Enteritis, "acute" is a ______________ _________________ and "chronic" is a subentry.
In this case, the __________ _______________"acute" does not apply to the subentry "chronic". -
✔✔non essential modifiers
_________________ are used in the Tabular List after an incomplete term which needs one or more of
the modifiers following the __________ to make it assignable to a given category. - ✔✔Colon
Codes titled ________________ or ___________ ________________ are for use when the information
in the medical record provides detail for which a specific code does not exist. - ✔✔other or other
specified
Alphabetic Index entries with NEC in the line designate ____________ codes in the Tabular List. -
✔✔other
Alphabetic Index entries represent specific disease entitles for which no specific code exists so the term
is included within an _______ ____________. - ✔✔other code
Codes titled ____________________ are for use when the information in the medical record is
insufficient to assign a more specific code. - ✔✔unspecified
For those categories for which an unspecified code is not provided, the ___________
__________________ code may represent both other and unspecified. - ✔✔other specified
__________________________ notes appear immediately under a three character code title to further
define, or give examples of, the content of the category. - ✔✔Includes
_________________ ________________ is a list of terms included under some codes. These terms are
the conditions for which that code is to be used. - ✔✔Inclusion terms
____________ ____________ may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of 'other specified'
codes, the terms are a list of various conditions assigned to that code. - ✔✔Inclusion terms
ICD-10-CM has ______________ types of excludes notes. - ✔✔two
A type ___________ Excludes note is a pure excludes note. - ✔✔one
A type ____________ Excludes note means not coded here. - ✔✔one
An Excludes 1 note indicates that the code excluded should ___________________ be used as the same
time as the code above the Excludes 1 note. - ✔✔never
An __________________ ________________ is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such
as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition. - ✔✔Excludes 1
An exception to the Excludes 1 definition is the circumstance when the two conditions are
_____________________ to each other. - ✔✔unrelated
If it is not clear whether the two conditions involving an Excludes 1 note are related or not,
________________________________. - ✔✔query the physician
____________________ ___________________ note represents "not included here". - ✔✔Excludes 2
An _______________ _____________ note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the
condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time. -
✔✔Excludes 2
When an _________________ _________________ note appears under a code, it is acceptable to use
both the code and the excluded code together, when appropriate. - ✔✔Excludes 2
Certain conditions have both an underlying etiology and multiple body system manifestations due to the
underlying etiology. For such conditions, the ICD-10-CM has a coding ______________ that requires the
underlying condition be sequenced first, if applicable, followed by the manifestation. - ✔✔convention
Wherever such a condition exists, there is a _____________ _____________ __________________ note
at the etiology code, and a ____________ _________________ note at the manifestation code. - ✔✔use
additional code at the etiology code and a code first note at the manifestation code
Instructional notes indicate the proper sequencing order of the codes __________ followed by
__________________. - ✔✔etiology followed by manifestation
In most cases the manifestation codes will have in the code title "________ __________________
__________________ _______________". - ✔✔in diseases classified elsewhere
Codes with the title 'in diseases classified elsewhere' are a component of the
___________________/__________________convention. - ✔✔etiology/manifestation convention
"In diseases classified elsewhere" codes are never permitted to be used as _________
________________ or _____________ ______________ codes. - ✔✔first listed or principal diagnosis
codes
Manifestation codes must be used in conjunction with an _______________ ________________code
and they must be listed following the ______________ __________________. - ✔✔underlying condition
The code title "In diseases classified elsewhere" indicates that it is a _____________________ code. -
✔✔manifestation
There are manifestation codes that do not have "in diseases classified elsewhere" in the title. For such
codes, there is an "use additional code" note at the etiology code and a "Code first" note at the
manifestation code and the _____________ ________________ _________________ apply. - ✔✔rules
for sequencing
In the Alphabetic Index both conditions are listed together with the etiology code first followed by the
manifestation codes in brackets. the code in brackets is always to be sequenced ______________. -
✔✔second
Example of the etiology /manifestation convention is dementia in Parkinson's disease. In the Alphabetic
Index, code G20 is listed first, followed by code F02.80 or F02.81 in brackets. Code G20 represents the
underlying etiology, Parkinson's disease, and must be sequenced _________________. Whereas codes
F02.8 and F02.81 represent the manifestation o
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