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Identify the table that distinguishes between malignant,benign,in situ,and uncertain behavior of tumors?

A) Table of Drugs and Chemicals
B) Table of Periodic Revisions
C) Table of Neoplasms
D) Table of Etiology and Manifestations

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In an ICD-10 code,additional characters after the decimal point serve no real purpose.

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A code listed next to a main term in the ICD-10-CM Index is referred to as a _____ code.

Volume 1 of ICD-9 has 17 subsections plus the sections on E codes and V codes,Appendices A through E,and Table A.

For the abbreviation NEC (not elsewhere classifiable) in the Index,the coder is directed to:

A patient's diagnosis can be taken from a variety of sources within the medical record,such as:

Transforming verbal descriptions of a diagnosis into numbers or a combination of alphanumerical characters is referred to as:

In which coding system are the alpha characters case sensitive?

In the diagnosis "heart failure (acute) ," the nonessential modifier would be:

ICD-10-CM has three to seven characters;the first character is always a/an:

Terms in parentheses following the main terms that are provided to assist the coder in locating the applicable main term are called:

What abbreviationin ICD-9 is the equivalent of unspecified,meaning that a more specific diagnosis is unavailable?

When a code appears in ICD-10 with a type 1 Excludes note,it means

In the ICD-10 system,all letters of the alphabet are used,except:

Certain ICD-10-CM categories require an extension to provide further specificity about the condition being coded that is referred to as the:

The abbreviation ICD-10-CM stands for ____________________.

Codes representing external causes of injury and poisoning are referred to as _____ codes.

The purpose of the ICD system was to promote a way of comparing the collection,classification,processing,and presentation of _________________.

Diagnosis is the determination of the nature of a cause of disease.

List the essential steps in ICD-9 diagnostic coding discussed in the text.