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ICD10Term2
Chapter/codes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| AHA | American Hospital Association |
| AHIMA | American Health Information Management Association |
| CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) |
| NCHS | National Center for Health Statistics |
| CC | complications and comorbidities |
| MCC | Major complications and comorbidities. MS-GRGs |
| MS-DRGs | Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups |
| Sequela | is the residual effect (condition produced) |
| Coding of sequela | generally requires two codes sequenced in the following order: The condition or nature of the sequela is sequenced first. The sequela code is sequenced second. |
| Impending | about to occur |
| Arthritis | Arthropathy, Osteoarthritis |
| serology | The branch of science concerned with serum, especially with specific immune or lytic serums; |
| ST segment | The part of an EKG tracing that begins at the end of a QRS complex, contains the J point, and ends at the beginning of the ensuing T wave. |
| queried | To express doubt or uncertainty about |
| sepsis | Systemic infection by pathogenic microorganisms, especially bacteria, that have invaded the bloodstream, usually from a local source. |
| exacerbation | To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of |
| postoperative | Happening or done after a surgical operation. |
| Reactive arthropathy | infection is identified in the body, but the organism and antigen are not identified in the joint. |
| postinfective arthropathy, | the antigen is present, but the recovery of the organism is not constant, and there is no evidence that a microorganism is multiplying |
| Atrophic disorders of skin | scar |
| hallax valgus / bunion | an abnormal deviation of the big toe away from the midline of the body or toward the other toes of the foot |
| uncontrolled diabetes | E10.65 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with hyperglycemia |
| ASD | atrial septal defect |
| fetal | newborn, liveborn |
| Status(post) | shunts, inplant etc Z98 |
| Respirator | ventilator |
| Dependency | Z99 |
| Altered | Alteration |
| bruit, cardiac | heart murmur |
| abnormal - specimen | Abnormal findings on examination of other body fluids, substances and tissues, without diagnosis R83-R89 |
| Abnormalities of breathing R06 | |
| BMI | body mass index Z68 |
| underweight | R63.6 |
| laceration | rough, jagged tear (open wound ) |
| symptomatic | pertai ning to a symptom or symptoms. |
| asymptomatic | showing no evidence of disease. |
| congenital | of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996: U.S. |