Exam 2: Foundations of ICD-10-CM

The ICD-10-CM manual provides the ___________ for the patient's service or procedure.

Excludes 1 and Excludes 2 notes can be found in all of the following locations in the ICD-10-CM manual except:

A condition with slow onset and of long duration, even the lifetime of the patient, is known as a(n) ___________ condition.

A default code is one that:

In the medical record, the patient is documented to have the following conditions: lower back pain, blood in the urine, and a kidney infection. The coder would assign ICD-10-CM code(s) for the following condition(s):

Punctuation marks used to enclose supplemental terms, or nonessential modifiers, are:

An unspecified code would be assigned to a code known as a ___________ code.

The condition produced after the initial injury or condition has been healed is called the:

Guidelines for coding pressure ulcer stages are in this chapter:

The guidelines for Chapter 20, External Causes of Morbidity, include:

A condition with sudden onset, usually without warning, and of brief duration is a(n) ___________ condition.

The ability of a coder to accurately and efficiently assign proper diagnosis codes within compliance guidelines relies on his/her knowledge of all of the following except:

A facility coder notes that a provider has documented a salpingo-oophorectomy was performed on a male patient. The coder relied on her knowledge of __________ to determine this is an impossible coding scenario.

When a more specific code is not provided in the ICD manual, the abbreviation _______ is used.

In ICD-10-CM, an "x" placed in the fourth-, fifth-, or sixth-character place when needed to enable the seventh-character extender to remain in the seventh-character position is the:

Excludes 1 and Excludes 2 notes can be found in all of the following locations in the ICD-10-CM manual except:

The nomenclature "Open wound of elbow, forearm, and wrist with tendon involvement" may be selected when:

When the acute and chronic forms of a condition are present:

Which of the following is not a major step in locating the appropriate ICD-10-CM code?

Per ICD-10-CM guidelines, the use of the word "and" is interpreted to mean: