Exam 2: Foundations of ICD-10-CM

The statement in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines "that condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for the admission of the patient to the hospital for care" is a definition of a:

A coder identifies _______ when he/she determines the answer to the question "What did the patient suffer from?"

Select the true statement regarding guidelines and conventions:

The chapter-specific guidelines for Chapter 19, Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes contain information about:

What is another name for the full description of an ICD-10-CM code?

In ICD-10-CM, the following notation indicates that a separate associated complication or comorbidity is present:

The diagnostic statement "Cholera" would be coded as:

The diagnosis code selected from the ICD-10-CM manual provides the support for the patient's:

The way the condition due to the underlying disease or condition presents itself is called the:

The ICD-10-CM code A04.8 "Other specified bacterial intestinal infections" would be appropriate to assign when the cause of a patient's enteritis is not specifically described in a more specific ICD-10-CM code. This is an example of a:

What is another name for the full description of an ICD-10-CM code?

Guidelines including information regarding the sequencing of comorbidities or complications, such as anemia or pathologic fractures, occur in the chapter-specific guidelines of which ICD-10-CM chapter?

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 default code is one that:

October 1, 2015, the new Procedural Coding System (PCS) code manual became known as:

Approximately how many codes does the ICD-10-CM manual contain?

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

What is the primary reason why coders should understand the format of the ICD-10-CM manual?

In ICD-10-CM, alphabetic seventh characters used to complete the description of many codes by conveying additional information are the:

What is an abbreviation that means "not elsewhere classified?"