Lesson 1 Summary
- ICD-10-CM includes clinical detail, specificity, and terminology consistent with current clinical practice.
- ICD-10-CM includes the following sections:
- The ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting are rules developed to go with the official conventions and instructions within ICD-10-CM.
- Conventions are the general rules for the classification independent of the guidelines. ICD-10 incorporates these conventions within the Alphabetic Index and Tabular List of ICD-10-CM as instructional notes.