CCS EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
These ________________ are incorporated within the Alphabetic Index and Tabular
List of the ICD--CM as instructional notes - Answers -conventions
The conventions and instructions of the classification take precedence over
______________________ - Answers -guidelines
The ______________ ___________________ is an alphabetical list of terms and their
corresponding code. - Answers -Alphabetic Index
The ________ ______________ is a structured list of codes divided into chapters
based on body system or condition. - Answers -Tabular Index
The Alphabetic Index consists of what four parts? - Answers -- Index of Diseases and
Injury
- Index of External Causes of Injury
- Table of Neoplasms
- Table of Drugs and Chemicals
The ICD-10-CM Tabular List contains categories, ______________, and codes. -
Answers -categories, subcategories, and codes
NEC - Answers -Not Elsewhere Classified
NEC represents ____________________ - Answers -Other specified
When a specific code is not available for a condition, the Alphabetic Index directs the
coder to the ______________ _______________ code in the Tabular List. - Answers -
other specified
NOS - Answers -Not otherwise specified
NOS is the equivalent of ______________________. - Answers -Unspecified
NOS and NEC mean the same thing in both the Alphabetic Index and the
______________ __________________. - Answers -Tabular List
________________ are used in the Tabular List to enclose synonyms, alternative
wording, or explanatory phrases. - Answers -brackets
____________________ are used in the Alphabetic Index to indicate manifestation
codes. - Answers -brackets
, _____________________ are used in both the Alphabetic Index and the Tabular List to
enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a
disease or procedure without affecting the code number to which it is assigned. -
Answers -Parenthesis
The terms within the parenthesis are referred to as ___________________
_______________________. - Answers -nonessential modifiers
_________________ _____________________ in the Alphabetic Index to Diseases
apply to subterms following a main term except when a _____________
______________________ and a subentry are mutually exclusive, the subentry takes
precedence. For example, in ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index, under the main term
Enteritis, "acute" is a ______________ _________________ and "chronic" is a
subentry. In this case, the __________ _______________"acute" does not apply to the
subentry "chronic". - Answers -non essential modifiers
_________________ are used in the Tabular List after an incomplete term which needs
one or more of the modifiers following the __________ to make it assignable to a given
category. - Answers -Colon
Codes titled ________________ or ___________ ________________ are for use when
the information in the medical record provides detail for which a specific code does not
exist. - Answers -other or other specified
Alphabetic Index entries with NEC in the line designate ____________ codes in the
Tabular List. - Answers -other
Alphabetic Index entries represent specific disease entitles for which no specific code
exists so the term is included within an _______ ____________. - Answers -other code
Codes titled ____________________ are for use when the information in the medical
record is insufficient to assign a more specific code. - Answers -unspecified
For those categories for which an unspecified code is not provided, the ___________
__________________ code may represent both other and unspecified. - Answers -
other specified
__________________________ notes appear immediately under a three character
code title to further define, or give examples of, the content of the category. - Answers -
Includes
_________________ ________________ is a list of terms included under some codes.
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. - Answers -Inclusion
terms
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