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Running Head: HEALTH & MEDICAL 1 ICD-10-CM coding manual Student’s name: Institution-affiliated: Professor’s name: Date: HEALTH & MEDICAL Discuss the contents of the ICD10 CM coding manual. Always the first digit of an ICD-10-CM code is an alpha while the second digit is constantly numeric as well digits three through seven might be numeric or alpha. Every code starts with a letter usually followed by. ICD-10-CM first three characters are the category. The overall kind of disease is explained by category. A decimal point along with the subcategory follows the category. Two sub classifications also follow, describing further regarding the kind of disease, severity, cause, location as well as manifestation. Extension is the last character (Quan et al, 2016). What are the steps to selecting a diagnosis code? The first step in selecting a diagnosis code is looking the condition in the alphabetic index.in this step, find the key term in the alphabetic index and locate them. Then reviewing the sub terms in order to determine the available specific code. The second step is confirming the code along with recognizing the highest specificity. The codes are confirmed in the tabular ...
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