Exam 3: Icd-10-Cm Coding Conventions

Parentheses are used in _____.

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

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

The "Use additional code" _____.

When an "Includes" note appears after the start of a chapter, the note governs the entire chapter.

Brackets enclose all but which one of the following?

There are two types of "Excludes" notes in ICD-10-CM.

The point dash signals to the coder that _____.

NOS means not otherwise specified.

The abbreviation ____________________ is the equivalent of unspecified.

The ICD-10-CM Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries contains categories, ____________________, and codes.

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

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

A Type 1 Excludes note is a pure Excludes note.

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.

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

The "Excludes 1" note _____.

NEC means not elsewhere coded.

Nonessential modifiers appears in the Alphabetical Index ______.

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.