General Surgery Coding Alert - 2012 Issue 18
ICD-10: Use This Map to Navigate Your ICD-10-CM Manual
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Article Overview
This article explains how to read the ICD-10-CM manual and highlights the main ways its Alphabetic Index and Tabular List are organized. It is aimed at coders and other revenue cycle professionals who need a practical orientation to ICD-10-CM structure, chapter layout, and external cause reporting concepts. The article also touches on broad differences from ICD-9-CM and points readers to the types of references and categories they will encounter in the manual.
Why This Topic Matters
Understanding the layout of ICD-10-CM helps coders locate diagnoses more efficiently and recognize how the code set differs from ICD-9-CM. This kind of orientation supports accurate code lookup and faster adaptation to the manual's chapter structure and indexing conventions.
Article Sections
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Check Out the Alphabetic Index
Introduces the Alphabetic Index and the types of references found there. Also notes broad ICD-10-CM changes affecting index structure and drug and chemical tables.
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Don't Miss This Big ICD-10 Alphabetic Index Change
Describes major organizational differences in the ICD-10-CM indexing of injury and external cause information. The section emphasizes how related material is grouped across chapters.
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Now Check Out the Tabular List
Explains how the Tabular List is arranged into chapters and how those chapters are organized. It also outlines general differences from ICD-9-CM chapter structure.
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How to Decipher Code Categories
Summarizes the general format of ICD-10-CM categories and subcategories in the tabular portion of the manual. The section focuses on code length and hierarchy at a high level.
What You Will Learn
- How the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index is organized
- How the ICD-10-CM Tabular List is structured
- What broad changes distinguish ICD-10-CM from ICD-9-CM
- How diagnosis categories and subcategories are formatted in ICD-10-CM
- What kinds of external cause information may appear in ICD-10-CM
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Coding students
- Revenue cycle staff
- Health information management professionals
Codes Discussed
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