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Use this Handy Tool to Learn Your Way around the ICD-10 Manual
Published on Sun Jan 21, 2001
These memory tricks will give your navigation a boost.
After years of using your ICD-9 manual, you know right where to look for the conditions you code most often. But when ICD-10 makes its debut, you'll need to learn your way around a whole new manual.
Each ICD-10 code begins with a letter and these letters indicate the tabular chapter from which the code comes. Use this humorous memory tool from
Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, HCS-D, COS-C, HCS-O, consultant and principal of Selman-Holman & Associates and CoDR -- Coding Done Right in Denton, Texas to begin familiarizing yourself with ICD-10's organization.
Infectious and Parasitic Diseases = Anti-Biotics
C -- Neoplasms = Cancer
D -- Neoplasms and Blood and Blood-Forming Organs = More Neoplasms and Deficiencies
E -- Endocrine, Nutritional, and Metabolic
F -- Mental and Behavior Disorders = Freud
G -- Nervous System = Golly! makes you nervous.
H -- Eye and Adnexa, Ear and Mastoid Process = Hearing
I -- Circulatory System = Ischemia
J -- Respiratory System = Take a deep breath before you Jump
K -- Digestive System = Special K (fiber is good for your digestive system)
L -- Skin and Subcutaneous = Lovely skin
M -- Musculoskeletal
N -- Genitourinary = Naughty parts
O -- Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium = Obstetrics
P -- Perinatal Period
Q -- Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities = Quite difficult conditions
R -- Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings = Should be coded Rarely
S & T -- Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes = Strychnine and Trauma
V, W, X, Y -- External Causes of Morbidity= Victims
Z -- Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services = Codes of last resort.