ICD 10 Coding Alert

Did you catch what forward/backward mapping means?

Occasionally, we will offer you an activity or game to help you apply your ICD-10 coding knowledge. Try your hand at this filling-in-the-blank challenge, based on last month's article, "GEMs: Making This 'True Crosswalk' Assumption Could Cost Your Time and Money," featured in the ICD-10 Coding Alert, Volume 2, Number 1 issue.

1. GEMs stand for ________.

2. You need to know about GEMs because you may have to ________ and ________.

3. You might classify R65.21 as a __________.

4. ________ means the destination code set. In other words, this is the set the GEM is mapping 'to.'

5. When you look up ICD-10-CM code Z72.3's equivalent, you will find _______.

6. Because the GEMs are a record with no structural relationships, you would classify it as a _______.

7. GEMs are NOT a ________.

8. You could classify the correlation between 003.21 and A02.21 as _______.

9. ________ means the original code set. In other words, this is the set the GEM is mapping 'from.'

10. ________ means on.

11. ________ means that you're using a GEM by looking at a target system code and examining the codes that translate to it.

12. When you see an ICD-10-CM code targeting an ICD-9-CM code, then that is called ________.

13. ________ means off.

14. When you see your ICD-9-CM code targeting an ICD-10-CM code, then that is called ________.

15. ________ will result in increased denials and delayed payments.

A. General Equivalence Mappings

B. True crosswalk

C. Flat File

D. One-to-one

E. No match

F. Combination code

G. Target system

H. Source system

I. Forward mapping

J. Reverse lookup

K. 1

L. 0

M. Verify your software for accuracy

N. Find inconsistencies

O. Inaccurate coding

P. Backward mapping

Answers: 1A, 2MN, 3F, 4G, 5E, 6C, 7B, 8D, 9H, 10K, 11J, 12P, 13L, 14I, 15O