ICD EXAM TEST VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2023

The ______ provides an index of the disease descriptions that are found in the second major part of ICD-10-CM. - ANSWER Alphabetic Index The ICD-10-CM updates released by the National Center for Health Statistics are called ______. - ANSWER addenda The ICD-10-CM code set contains approximately ______ codes, making it much larger than ICD-9-CM. - ANSWER 70,000 ______ are used to report encounters for circumstances other than a disease or injury in ICD-10-CM. - ANSWER Z codes A(n) ______ is an objective indication that can be evaluated by a physician. - ANSWER sign ICD-10-CM uses ______ to indicate an incomplete term. - ANSWER colons Which of the following is not a further breakdown of a disease that may be provided by a subcategory? - ANSWER sequela Typographic techniques that provide visual guidance for understanding information and help coders to understand rules and select the right code are known as ______ in ICD-10-CM - ANSWER conventions Tay-Sachs disease is an example of a(n) ______. - ANSWER eponym The abbreviation ______ is used with a term when there is no code that is specific for the condition. - ANSWER NEC