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Flash Cards for Diagnostic Coding for MBC notes

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coding   the assignment of numeric or alphanumeric digits and characters to specific diagnostic and procedural phrases  
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The World Health Organization (WHO)   in 1948, assumed responsibility for preparing and publishing the revisions to the ICD every 10 years. Thus, with every 10-year revision, the name of the current ICD changes.  
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An abbreviation for the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification   ICD-10-CM  
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ICD-10-CM   an arrangement of classes or groups of diagnoses by systematic division that is used in the United States  
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mortality   the rate or frequency of deaths  
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morbidity   the rate or frequency of disease  
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)   in the United States, is responsible for maintaining the ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes.  
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)   responsible for maintaining the procedure codes of ICD-10-PCS.  
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)   passed by Congress in 1996 to improve the portability and continuity of health care coverage  
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Administrative Simplification   developed standards for the electronic exchange of health care data by administrative and financial transactions  
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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)   represents health information professionals who manage, organize, process, and manipulate patient data.  
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The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)   was founded to elevate the standards of medical coding.  
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The Certified Professional Coder (CPC) certification   validates a coder’s proficiency in the physician office setting  
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the Certified Inpatient Coder, (CIC) certification   validates proficiency in the inpatient hospital setting  
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Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) certification   validates coding proficiency in outpatient hospital and outpatient facility coding.  
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Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC) certification   validates that a coder can read a medical chart and assign the correct diagnosis (ICD-10-CM) codes for a wide variety of clinical cases and services for risk adjustment models.  
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The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries   an alphanumerical list of codes, commonly referred to as the Tabular.  
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divided into chapters based on body system (anatomical site) or condition (etiology)   The Tabular List  
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Conventions   instructional notes, punctuation marks, abbreviations, and symbols  
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Instructional notes   appear in both the Tabular List and Alphabetic Index of ICD-10-CM.  
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Includes note   used to define, give examples, or both, of the content of a category of ICD-10-CM or of a block of category codes.  
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Excludes notes   used to signify that the conditions listed are not assigned to the category or block of category codes.  
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How many types of Excludes Notes are there?   Two  
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Excludes1 note   easy to understand and apply.  
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Excludes2 note   used to signify that the diagnostic terms listed after the note are not part of the condition(s) represented by the code or code block.  
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See note   used in the Alphabetic Index of ICD-10-CM and instructs the coder to cross-reference the term or diagnosis that follows the notation.  
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See Also note   refers the coder to another location in the Alphabetic Index when the initial listing does not contain all the necessary information to accurately select a code.  
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Code First note   instructs the coder to select a code to represent the etiology that caused the manifestation.  
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Use Additional Code note   instructs the coder to use an additional code to identify the manifestation that is present.  
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In Diseases Classified Elsewhere Note   applies to the etiology/manifestation conventions.  
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Code Also note   is used in ICD-10-CM to instruct the coder that two codes may be needed to fully code a diagnostic phrase.  
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The terms found within the parentheses are referred to as   nonessential modifiers.  
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Parentheses   are used in both the Tabular List and Alphabetic Index. Parentheses are used around terms that provide additional information about the main diagnostic term.  
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Brackets   are used in the Tabular Listing and in the Alphabetic Index.  
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A colon   is used in the Tabular listing after a term that is modified by one or more of the terms following the colon  
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What does NEC stand for?   not elsewhere classifiable  
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What does NOS Stand for?   not otherwise specified.  
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The point dash symbol (.–)   tells the coder that the code contains a list of options at a level of specificity past the three-character category.  
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Granularity   the level of detail.  
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Laterality   for bilateral sites ICD-10-CM indicates the specific site.  
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