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casperchen82

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The term clinical emphasizes the ICD-10-CM modification's intent, which is to describe the clinical picture of the patient, which means the codes must be more __________ than those needed only for statistical groupings and trend analysis.
 a. broad
 b. equivocal
  c. general
 d. precise

Question 2

Provider offices and outpatient health care settings use __________ to code procedures and services.
 a. CPT
 b. DSM-5
 c. ICD-10-CM
 d. ICD-10-PCS



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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