AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 6 (June)

Conventions of ICD-10-CM (June 2014)

June 2014 pages 12-13 Conventions of ICD-10-CM The conventions of ICD-10-CM are the general rules for use of the classification independent of the chapter-specific guidelines. The conventions are located in both the Tabular List and Alphabetic Index of the ICD-10-CM code set. Coding conventions include: Instructional notes Abbreviations Punctuation Symbols Formatting Typefaces Rules Instructional notes The April 2014 article titled "Comparison of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM" provided some information on the instructional notes, such as "Excludes." This article will provide greater details of these instructional notes, as well as an overview of the other instructional notes used in the...

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