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Document for Facility Coding Exam Review 2013 The Certification Step With Icd 9 Cm 1e is available in various format such as PDF, DOC and ePUB which you can directly download and save in in to your device. This article will describe what the ICD-9-CM/ICD-10-CM codes are, why they are so important. 9th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9). 2013 to October 1, 2014 by final rule CMS-0040-F issued on August 24, 2012. Will be able to be combine utilizing the GEM files as a guide for the process.
Within ICD-9-CM, you may select codes defined as “Not Otherwise Specified” (NOS) when there isn’t enough documentation to select a more specific code. In other words, a deficiency in documentation prevents you from coding to a higher level of specificity. NOS codes are never favored, and claims submitted with such diagnoses may be rejected for lack of medical necessity and/or specificity. When possible, you may wish to ask the documenting provider for additional information and/or to append the record, so that a more precise diagnosis may be selected. Codes defined as “Not Elsewhere Classifiable” (NEC) may be selected when specific information is documented for the diagnosis, but there isn’t an existing ICD-9-CM code to report it.
In this case, the ICD-9-CM manual—not the documentation—lacks additional specificity.