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When the reason for admission is both sepsis (or severe sepsis) and a localized infection (e.g., pneumonia or cellulitis), which condition should be assigned as the principal or first-listed diagnosis

In the outpatient setting, it is appropriate to assign diagnoses qualified as “possible,” “probably,” “likely,” “questionable,” or “rule out” as if they were present.

 A ___________ is a word or phrase used by a physician to identify a disease an individual suffers from.

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 The first three characters of an ICD-10-CM code represent the ___________.

When is it appropriate to assign codes for abnormal findings in the acute Inpatient hospital setting?

Diagnosis codes are to be used and reported at their highest number of characters available and to the highest level of [blank] documented in the medical record.

A patient is diagnosed with MRSA septicemia and pneumonia due to MRSA. How should this be coded?   Sequence appropriately

What is the definition of “principal diagnosis”?

ICD-10-CM uses an alphabetic index to initially locate codes for conditions and a [blank] list to verify codes.