D255 Medical coding study guide Graded A+

D255 Medical coding study guide
Graded A+
D255 Medical coding study guide
Graded A+
ICD-9-CM -
✅International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification

Main terms -
✅represents diseases, injuries, problems, complaints, drugs, and external causes of
diseases or conditions

Subterms -
✅words that are identified under main term

Sub-subterms -
✅indented 3 character spaces from the term above it

V-codes -
✅reports circumstances other than disease or injury

Tabular List (3) divisions -
✅diagnoses codes, supplementary classification, appendixes

E- codes -
✅Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning. These
codes classify the causes of injury, poisoning, and adverse events and are used to
gather statistics relating to these occurences.

ICD-9-CM codes range -
✅3 to 5 digits

Tabular List Format -
✅Chapter, Section, Category, Subcategory, Subclassification,

Alphabetic Index is -
✅Vol. 2, contains medical terms and is used first

Tabular List is -
✅Vol. 1

Alphabetic Index lists words describing -
✅pneumonia, bronchitis, infection, and fracture

External causes of diseases -
✅fall, accident, burn, and cut