chapter 18 Flashcards
In the healthcare profession there is a recognized transforming descriptions of a patient disease
process, disorder, or injury into universal numeric or alphanumeric known as coding
Morbidity
the presence of illness or disease, whereas
Mortality
is the deaths that occur from a disease
Diagnosis
determination of the nature of a cause of a disease
Art of distinguishing one disease from another
ICD 10-CM
international classification of diseases 10th revision clinical modification) is the book used for diagnosis coding in the medical office in the United States today
ICD-10-CM for
diagnosis coding
Used in
all healthcare settings Physician offices and outpatient clinics
Tabular list contains
21 chapters
ICD 10 includes
an alphabetic list of terms and corresponding codes