Key Concepts

Key concepts in this lesson:

• ICD-10-CM includes clinical detail, specificity, and terminology consistent with current clinical practice
• ICD-10-CM includes the following sections:
  • Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting
  • Alphabetic Index to Diseases and Injuries
  • Table of Neoplasms
  • Table of Drugs and Chemicals
  • External Cause of Injuries Index
  • Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
• The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting
  • These guidelines are a set of rules developed to go with the official conventions and instructions within ICD-10-CM
• Conventions are the general rules for the classification independent of the guidelines and are incorporated within the Alphabetic Index and Tabular List of ICD-10-CM as instructional notes