Exam 27: Inpatient Coding

The discharge summary states the patient's diagnosis is acute abdominal pain due to peptic ulcer disease or cholecystitis.Which diagnoses should be reported?

The root operation that is defined as correcting a portion of a previously performed procedure is:

The Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting are updated every year.

The Tabular List of ICD-10-PCS contains grids that represent the last four characters of a procedure code.

Patient is admitted for a lobectomy for cancer of the lung.The patient was noted to be wheezing so the surgery was canceled because of an exacerbation of the patient's COPD. ICD-10-CM Code(s): ____________________

A significant procedure is one that:

The removal of a tooth is an example of an extraction in the ICD-10-PCS system.

Patient is admitted with dysuria due to a severe urinary tract infection.Which diagnoses should be reported?

Patient was discharged with a diagnosis of probable acute myocardial infarction. ICD-10-CM Code(s): ____________________

A principal procedure is one that is performed for definitive treatment rather than for diagnostic or exploratory purposes, or one necessary to take care of a complication.

The ICD-10-PCS has a seven-character alphanumeric code structure.