Exam 2: Foundations of ICD-10-CM

How many chapters does the ICD-10-CM manual contain?

Stacey presents to the Emergency Room with severe abdominal cramping, nausea, and diarrhea, worsening over the last three hours. Stacey's 4-year-old daughter has stayed home from daycare the last two days with the stomach flu. Stacey also ate shellfish for dinner at a local seafood restaurant. After noting Stacey's signs and symptoms and performing a problem-focused examination, the ED physician was unable to make a definitive diagnosis regarding Stacey's stomach troubles. She did note, however, that Stacey's condition is "probable food poisoning." Based on outpatient coding guidelines, what diagnosis(es) may the ED coder assign for Stacey's encounter?

Impending or threatened conditions are:

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

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

The following are true of the 2018 edition of the CPC exam except:

Select the true statement regarding the first-listed diagnosis:

Guidelines for Chapter ______ contain information about the use of symptom codes with and without definitive diagnosis codes and the use of coma scale codes, as well as rules for sequencing SIRS not due to infection and a description of functional quadriplegia.

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.

Providers will sometimes confuse impending or threatened conditions with:

An acute condition is one that:

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

In ICD-10-CM, the note indicating that the condition being coded is located elsewhere in the manual and should never be coded with the code under which it is located is the:

In ICD-10-CM, the note indicating that the condition excluded is distinct from the code condition and is coded elsewhere in the manual but that it may be coded with the code condition during the same encounter is the:

There are currently no guidelines for these chapters:

Select the true statement below regarding the CPC coding exam

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

Identify the main term in this diagnostic statement: "Congenital atrial septal defect"

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?

Chapter 15 of the ICD-10-CM manual contains guidelines about: