Both the coding exercises and
the coding scenario are designed to help you put the new ICD-10 guidelines and
conventions into practice. An answer key is provided below so you can verify if
your answers are correct. In addition, code narratives are included to describe
each ICD-10 code used in the exercises and scenario.
If needed, use the ICD-10 Spotlight: Know the codes booklet for assistance with
these exercises.
Coding exercises
Code the following conditions
according to ICD-10 coding conventions and guidelines:
- Blindness (right eye), low
vision (left eye)
- Hypotension due to drugs
(diuretics), initial encounter
- Fecal impaction
- Irritable colon with
diarrhea
- Constipation
- Allergy from cat hair
- Itch
- Rheumatoid nodule, both
shoulders
- Kidney disease requiring
chronic dialysis
- Kidney disease requiring
chronic dialysis, non-compliant patient
Coding scenario
Code the following scenario
according to both ICD-9 and ICD-10 coding conventions and guidelines:
Tim and Susan celebrated their wedding
anniversary by making reservations at the restaurant where they had their first
date. They both decided to order something they have never tried before. The
meal was delicious, but later that evening Tim broke out in a rash and
experienced abdominal cramping and diarrhea. Susan suspected it must have been
something he ate and advised him to see his doctor. The physician confirmed
Susan?s suspicion.
Narratives
The following are the corresponding code
narratives for each of the codes in the answer key:
ICD-10 code
|
Code narrative
|
Exercises
|
H54.11
|
Blindness, right eye, low vision left eye
|
I95.2
|
Hypotension due to drugs
|
T50.2x5A
|
Adverse effect of carbonic-anhydrase inhibitors,
benzothiadiazides, and other diuretics, initial encounter
|
K56.41
|
Fecal impaction
|
K58.0
|
Irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea
|
K59.00
|
Constipation, unspecified
|
L23.81
|
Allergic contact dermatitis due to animal (cat) (dog) dander
|
L29.9
|
Pruritus, unspecified
|
M06.311
|
Rheumatoid nodule, right shoulder
|
M06.312
|
Rheumatoid nodule, left shoulder
|
N18.6
|
End stage renal disease
|
Z99.2
|
Dependence on renal dialysis
|
Z91.15
|
Patient?s noncompliance with renal dialysis
|
Scenario ? ICD-10
|
K52.2
|
Allergic and dietetic gastroenteritis and colitis
|
L27.2
|
Dermatitis due to ingested food
|
Y92.511
|
Restaurant or cafe as the place of occurrence of the external
cause
|
Scenario — ICD-9
|
558.3
|
Gastroenteritis and colitis, allergic
|
693.1
|
Dermatitis due to food taken internally
|
787.91
|
Diarrhea
|
E849.6
|
Place of occurrence, public building
|
For additional information related to
the IBC transition to ICD-10, please visit the ICD-10 section of our website. On this site
you will find examples of how ICD-9 codes will translate to ICD-10 codes in the
ICD-10 Spotlight: Know the codes booklet. In addition, you will
find examples of ICD-10 coding exercises and scenarios in the Putting ICD-10 into Practice: Coding exercises and scenarios
booklet.