A. To verify the codes you've located in the Alphabetic Index.
Verify the codes you've located in the Alphabetic Index.
The three volumes of the ICD-9-CM coding book:Volume 1: Tabular List with four appendicesVolume 2: Alphabetic Index to DiseasesVolume 3: Procedure Index and Procedure Tabular
To arrange in tabular form, to condense and list.
Chapter two page 18 of your text book: Braces are used in the tabular list to reduce repetitive wording by connecting a series of terms on the left with a statement on the right.
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Volume 1 Tabular list
The typeface used for ICD-10-CM main term entries in the Alphabetic Index, as well as all codes and descriptions of codes in the Tabular List, is typically a bold typeface. This distinction helps to clearly identify the main terms and codes for better readability and organization within the coding manual.
A vocabulary list should always include the pronunciation, if unusual, the part of speech, and possibly a close synonym or related word.
The Tabular list of a classification system usually consists of around 21 chapters, each representing a different category of diseases or conditions. Each chapter is further divided into blocks, categories, subcategories, and codes to provide a comprehensive structure for classifying diseases.
either condition may be sequenced first, unless the circumstances of the admission, therapy provided, the Tabular List, or the Alphabetic Index indicate otherwise.
The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is based on the World Health Organization's Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9). ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The ICD-9 was used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates until 1999, when use of ICD-10 for mortality coding started.The ICD-9-CM consists of:a tabular list containing a numerical list of the disease code numbers in tabular form;an alphabetical index to the disease entries; anda classification system for surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures (alphabetic index and tabular list).
either condition may be sequenced first, unless the circumstances of the admission, therapy provided, the Tabular List, or the Alphabetic Index indicate otherwise.