Sephardic
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I'm in a bit of a quandary. I have a book I'm using to study for the ICD10 proficiency exam. The book is published by the AMA. I'm doing the tests that are provided on a CD that comes with the book. The test is having me list an ICD10 code for the conditions listed. One of them is "Leptospirosis Meningitis". I go to my ICD 10 book in the index and look up Meningitis. I go down further to the words in (due to) and I found Leptospirosis. Next to it it has the code A27.81. I go to the tabular and look up A27.81 and it says "Aseptic meningitis in leptospirosis". I look all around, above and below for excludes notes or any other information that is pertinent to this code. I assume that A27.81 is the correct answer. I go to the answers for the test and it states the answer is A27.81 & G01
???? I look up G01 and it says "Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere".
Underneath it says "code first underlying disease". Underneath that it says EXCLUDES 1 "meningitis (in):" Leptospirosis A27.81
I thought an Excludes 1 meant that they could not be coded together. My assumption is the answer really should be just A27.81 alone. Does anyone agree or disagree?
In looking at the answers provided to some of the other questions like "primary malignant skin cancer of the left forearm" The answer listed for this is C44.62. That code requires a 6th digit. So how could that possibly be the correct answer.
I think there's more bad answers. I haven't gone through them all yet but I can't believe this book was published!!!!
I feel like complaining to the AMA!!!
???? I look up G01 and it says "Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere".
Underneath it says "code first underlying disease". Underneath that it says EXCLUDES 1 "meningitis (in):" Leptospirosis A27.81
I thought an Excludes 1 meant that they could not be coded together. My assumption is the answer really should be just A27.81 alone. Does anyone agree or disagree?
In looking at the answers provided to some of the other questions like "primary malignant skin cancer of the left forearm" The answer listed for this is C44.62. That code requires a 6th digit. So how could that possibly be the correct answer.
I think there's more bad answers. I haven't gone through them all yet but I can't believe this book was published!!!!
I feel like complaining to the AMA!!!