ICD-10-CM Coding Health, Medicine, Nursing Essay Paper

ICD-10-CM Coding: An In-depth Analysis
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Example of a diagnosis code
The ICD code I11 represents hypertension and specifically, I11.9 is the code for “hypertensive heart disease without heart failure” this is a disease of the circulatory system (Hughes, 2015).The required characters
. Diagnosis based on the ICD-10-CM code has 3 to 7 characters and all the characters are present in the diagnosis of hypertension as one of the diseases affecting the circulatory system.
Appropriate steps to selecting a diagnosis code(1) Complete medical documentation
This requires reviewing the medical documentation, where the physician reviews the medical conditions based on the patient’s complaint, where there is also primary diagnosis and documentation.
(2) Abstract the medical conditions based on the documentation
This involves assigning the code depending on the diagnosis or diagnoses and the information may come from the medical records
(3) Categorizing the main term or condition for the diagnosis
This involves describing the term or condition as well as other dia...