ICD-10-CM Features
Excludes Notes
ICD-10-CM has 2 kinds of Excludes Notes: Excludes1 and Excludes2. Each note has a different definition for use; but, they’re similar because they both show that codes excluded from each other are independent of each other.
Note: Excludes Notes may not appear within each area of the course where coding examples are used when they’re not related to the principle being shown.