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Diagnosis Coding:
Using the ICD-10-CM

ICD-10-CM Features

Specificity & Clinical Detail

Certain codes offer a high level of specificity for expanded clinical detail, including codes for:

  • Injuries
  • Diabetes
  • Substance abuse
  • Postoperative complications

This chart shows examples of codes with expanded clinical detail.

Table 13. Examples of expanded ICD-10-CM codes
ICD-10-CM Code Description
E10.610 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with diabetic neuropathic arthropathy
F10.182 Alcohol abuse with alcohol-induced sleep disorder
T82.02XA Displacement of heart valve prosthesis, initial encounter