ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines Questions and Answers Graded A+

ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines Questions and Answers Graded A+ The official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting are approved by the ______________ for ICD- 10-CM to accompany and complement the official conventions and instructions provided within ICD-10-CM cooperating parties Signs and Symptoms associated with a disease should not be assigned as additional codes (if a patient complains of shortness of breath and is diagnosed with pneumonia the only codes assigned is for pneumonia since shortness of breath is a symptom of pneumonia) Coding guidelines use the term ______________ for all health care settings including inpatient hospital admissions encounter Coding guidelines use the term ___________ to mean physician or any qualified health care practitioner who is legally accountable for establishing the patient's diagnosis. provider The ______________ regulations for electronic transactions require providers and third-party payers including Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to adhere to the Official Guidelines for coding and Reporting HIPAA Section I of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting includes the _______________ of the classification and general guidelines that apply to the entire classification and chapter- specific guidelines that correspond to the chapters as they are arranged in the classification. structure and conventions Section II of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting includes guidelines for selection of the ____________ for non outpatient settings Principal diagnosis Section III of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting includes guidelines for reporting ______________ in non outpatient settings additional diagnoses Inpatient Care requires the reporting of additional diagnoses which are called comorbidities Section IV of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting covers ________________ coding and reporting outpatient diagnosis Appendix I of the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting covers _________________ reporting guidelines present on admission (POA) If The provider documents "a borderline diagnosis" at the time of discharge code the diagnosis as confirmed even when the ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries provides a specific entry that includes the word "borderline" (True or False) False When reviewing ICD-10-CM Index to Disease and Injuries entries if the code listed contains a fifth, sixth, ore seventh character it is unnecessary to verify the code in the ICD-10-CM Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries. False Upon verification of codes in the ICD-10-CM Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries when seventh characters are provided they must be assigned True Certain Z codes can be reported as a first-listed code for outpatient care. True Codes that describe symptoms and signs are always reported with established diagnoses False