Introduction to medical coding D521 WGU ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Introduction to medical coding D521 WGU ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWERSidentification of an illness by a licensed provider Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWERSa diseased condition or state mortality - CORRECT ANSWERSThe possibility of death Medical coding (history) - CORRECT ANSWERSStarted as an attempt to avoid the Black Death William Farr - CORRECT ANSWERSdeveloped centralized registration system for disease classification ICD - CORRECT ANSWERSManual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death ICD purpose/who sponsorship - CORRECT ANSWERSTo promote international comparability in the collection, classification, processing and presentation of morbidity and mortality statistics When was ICD 1 published? - CORRECT ANSWERS1900 How long was ICD used for death classification - CORRECT ANSWERSUntil the 6th revision when disease indexing began When did the us creat its own ICD version? - CORRECT ANSWERSAfter 1968, the 8th edition called ICDA-8 How many ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes are there? - CORRECT ANSWERS14,000 How many characters is a valid ICD-9-CM code? - CORRECT ANSWERS3-5 characters In ICD-9 where is the decimal point? - CORRECT ANSWERSAfter the third character First character in ICD-9 - CORRECT ANSWERSAlpha (E and V) or numeric In ICD-9 which characters are numeric? - CORRECT ANSWERSCharacters 2-5 In ICD-9 how are injuries grouped? - CORRECT ANSWERSBy ty