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Step-by-Step Chapeter 2: An Overview of ICD-9-CM Buck 2010

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Bold Type   Type face used for all codes and titles in the Tabular List.  
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Italics   Type face used for all exclusion notes and to identify codes that are not sequenced as first diagnosis.  
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Appendix A   Morphology and Neoplasms  
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Appendix B   Glossary of Mental Disorders, Deleted in 2004  
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Appendix C   Classification of Drugs  
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Appendix D   Classification of Industrial Accidents.  
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Appendix E   List Of Three-Digit Categories.  
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NEC   Not Elsewhere Classified, "other specified"  
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NOS   Not Otherwise Specified, "unspecified"  
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Brackets [ ]   encloses synonyms, alternative wording, or explanatory phrases. Found in Tabular List.  
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Parentheses ( )   encloses supplementary words (nonessential modifiers) that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease/procedure without affecting code assignment.  
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Colon :   Used after an incomplete phrase/term that requires one or more of the modifiers indented under it to make it assignable. Located in Tabular List.  
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Brace }   used to enclose a series of terms, each of which is modified by the statement appearing at the right of the brace.  
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Includes   Indicates seperate terms, such as, modifying adjectives, sites and conditions, entered under a subdivision to further define or give examples of, the content of the category.  
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Excludes   guideline to direct the coder to the proper code assignment.  
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Notes   used to define terms and give coding intructions.  
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See   indicates that another term should be referenced.  
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See Category   refers coder to a specific category, must always be followed.  
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E Codes   Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning (E000-E999)  
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Sections   groups of three-digit code numbers  
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Categories   three-digit code numbers  
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Subcategories   four-digit cade numbers  
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Fifth-Digit Subclassifications   five-digit code numbers  
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Volume 1   Tabular List  
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Volume 2   Alphabetic Index  
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Volume 3   procedure codes used only for hospital coding.  
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V Codes   specific ICD-9-CM codes used to identify encopunters for reasons other that illness/injury. (Immunization)  
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Specificity   requirement to code to the highest number of digits possible.  
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Sequencing   process of listing ICD-9CM codes in proper order.  
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Primary code   ICD-9-CM code that defines main reason for current encounter.  
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manifestation   characteristic signs/symptoms of an illness.  
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Etiology   cause(s) or origin of a disease.  
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Eponyms   medical procedures or conditions named after a person or a place.  
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cause   that which brings about any condition or produces any effect.  
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acute   refers to the condition that is the primary reason for the current encounter.  
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