HIT205 Week 2 Coding Application Test (Devry University)

Week 2 - True or False: Section I of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provides guidelines only for outpatient services. o False, a coder will reference Section I guidelines for outpatient and inpatient services - According to the ICD-10-CM guidelines Section I.B this punctuation, "a ______ (-) at the end of a code in the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index to Diseases and Injuries entry, indicates that additional characters are required for a valid code.” o Dash - True or False: A sequela is the acute illness or injury that has caused a permanent condition. o False, a sequela is the residual effect after the acute phase of an illness or injury - Tuberculous cerebral arteritis is reported with ICD-10-CM code o A18.89 - As described in the General Coding Guidelines I.B.8, if the same condition is described as both acute (subacute) and chronic, and separate subentries exist in the Alphabetic Index at the same indentation level, code_____ o Both, and sequence the acute (subacute) first - Joe Jones was seen to determine his HIV status one week ago. He is returning today to be informed of his HIV test results. The test results are positive. Recalling guidelines from I.C.1.a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code to use for this current encounter is