Diagnostic Medical Coding Week 2 Quiz

A sequela is the acute illness or injury that has caused a permanent condition. - False Section I of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting provides guidelines only for outpatient services. - False A dash at the end of an Index entry indicates that additional characters are required for a valid code. - True ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are composed of up to eight characters. - False When a definitive diagnosis has been established, codes such as pain and fever are not coded. - True Code B06 reports viral warts. - False Benign tumors are usually cancerous growths. - False Sarcoma is cancer of supportive tissues such as blood vessels, bones, cartilage and muscles - True Leukemia is a malignant type of neoplasm. - True