Where to Find ICD-10-CM Codes & Guidelines

CMS and NCHS offer the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. These guidelines are a set of rules they developed to go with the official conventions and instructions within ICD-10-CM. Download and print the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting from the CMS ICD-10 webpage, under the ICD-10 Files heading.

The Using the ICD-10-CM job aid includes information on ICD-10-CM coding conventions. To access the job aid, select the Job Aid button or select the Reference button at the top right of any course page.

Now, let’s review 7th character, abbreviations, punctuation, and more coding conventions used in ICD-10-CM.