Ch 5: Textbook Questions

Question 1

T/F: Conditions that are integral to a disease or condition should be coded as additional diagnoses

Answer 1

False

Question 2

T/F: When separate codes are used to identify acute and chronic conditions, the chronic code is sequenced first

Answer 2

False

Question 3

T/F: Reliance on only the Alphabetic Index or only the Tabular List can lead to errors in code assignments and less specificity in code selection in ICD-10-CM

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T/F: A patient has anemia due to chronic renal failure. The anemia is integral to the chronic renal failure

Answer 4

False

Question 5

T/F: A patient has right lower quadrant abdominal pain due to acute appendicitis. The abdominal pain should be assigned as an additional code.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

T/F: In the inpatient setting, it is acceptable to code diagnoses that have not yet been confirmed but that are questionable or suspected at the time of discharge (with the exceptions of AIDS and avian and H1N1 influenza and Zika virus)

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T/F: If the discharge diagnosis was abdominal pain due to acute appendicitis, abdominal pain would be coded as the principal diagnosis.

Answer 7

False