ICD-10 Training | ICD-10-CM Course Notes

ICD-10 Training | ICD-10-CM Course Notes https://www.cco.us/icd-10-cm-diagnost...

Alicia: . I just did an ICD 10 CM course with the AAPC and because I'm a CPC-I like Laureen did, we have been able to go ahead and take the proficiency ICD-10 exam and that's what you guys will be taking in 2014. You know what, you're not going to have any trouble with it.

I think that it's not the challenge that everybody is scared about. The closer we get to 2014, there are so many resources out there besides our... we have our mini courses and we have a full course in ICD-10 soon too. But there're a few little things that you need to prepare for. One of the things is that you no longer are using just numbers when doing ICD-9. You had 401.9 was hypertension and you never saw in an ICD-9 code a letter; so they've changed the terminology and it's no longer digits, but they're going to call them characters. That is because you're going to see numbers and letters.

So, with that being said, there are some letters and numbers that get a little confusing. I made a note of a couple of them. The number zero and the letter "O" when you write those together, nothing distinguishes them apart. And sometimes, when you're typing, it doesn't distinguish them depending on what fonts you're using. And I know some of you know this because after the webinars, or if our students get an access code to something special and if it has a zero and an "O" or vice versa, it can get very confusing.

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