Medical Coding and Billing ICD 10

Course Outline

1. Module 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
2. Module 2: Neoplasm
3. Module 3: Diseases of the Blood and Blood Forming Organs
4. Module 4: Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
5. Module 5: Mental Disorders
6. Module 6: Diseases of the Nervous System
7. Module 7: Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa
8. Module 8: Diseases of the Ear and Mastoid Process
9. Module 9: Diseases of the Circulatory System
10. Module 10: Diseases of the Respiratory System
11. Module 11: Diseases of the Digestive System
12. Module 12: Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
13. Module 13: Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
14. Module 14: Diseases of the Genitourinary System
15. Module 15: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
16. Module 16: Newborn (Perinatal) Guidelines
17. Module 17: Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
18. Module 18: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings
19. Module 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of the External Causes
20. Module 20: External Causes of Morbidity
21. Module 21: Factors Influencing Health Status

The ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) is a system used by physicians and other healthcare providers to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures recorded in conjunction with hospital care in the United States. It provides a level of detail that is necessary for diagnostic specificity and morbidity classification in the U.S.

Like its predecessor ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM is based on the International Classification of Diseases, which is published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and which uses unique alphanumeric codes to identify known diseases and other health problems. According to WHO, physicians, coders, health information managers, nurses and other healthcare professionals also use ICD-10-CM to assist them in the storage and retrieval of diagnostic information. ICD records are also used in the compilation of national mortality and morbidity statistics.

ICD-10-CM is a seven-character, alphanumeric code. Each code begins with a letter, and that letter is followed by two numbers. The first three characters of ICD-10-CM are the “category.” The category describes the general type of the injury or disease. The category is followed by a decimal point and the subcategory. This is followed by up to two sub-classifications, which further explain the cause, manifestation, location, severity, and type of injury or disease. The last character is the extension.

The extension describes the type of encounter this is. That is, if this is the first time a healthcare provider has seen the patient for this condition/injury/disease, it’s listed as the “initial encounter.” Every encounter after the first is listed as a “subsequent encounter.” Patient visits related to the effects of a previous injury or disease are listed with the term “sequela.”