Medical Coding: ICD-10-CM Guidelines 2026 for Coding

Navigate ICD-10-CM coding with advanced software, learning how to assign principal and secondary diagnoses, initial and subsequent encounters, and unspecified or sequel codes for fever and injuries.

Explore chapter one icd coding guidelines focusing on hiv guidelines, including b20, z21, and r75 codes. Understand sequencing for related and unrelated hiv conditions and principal versus secondary diagnoses.

Learn hiv icd-10-cm 2025 guidelines, including screening with z level dot four, counseling with z71.7, hiv management with b20, and pregnancy and high risk sequences using z21 and z79.81.

This lecture explains sepsis coding guidelines from chapter one, detailing when to code sepsis with unspecified or specified organisms, septic shock, and acute organ failure.

Explore sepsis guidelines for ICD-10-CM coding, including sequencing infections with sepsis and handling noninfectious conditions. Learn MRSA guidelines, post-procedural infections, urosepsis exceptions, and zika exposure coding.

Learn CMS covid-19 guidelines, code U07.1 for provider-confirmed covid-19, and sequence it before related respiratory or non-respiratory problems, exposure (Z 20 .822) and screening (Z .5).

Explore covid-19 icd-10-cm guidelines, including personal history (z86.16), post covid (u09), symptom coding (r06, r53.83), and vaccination/antibody codes (z83.310, z01.84).

Explore ICD-10-CM neoplasm guidelines, including primary versus secondary cancer, carcinoma in situ (stage zero), staging, complications, and treatment encounter codes for accurate coding.

In this lecture, you explore CPC pattern questions for chapter two coding guidelines, emphasizing primary first and secondary site coding and correct sequencing for treatment encounters.

Chapter three covers diseases of the blood and blood forming organs. Currently, no coding guidelines apply; refer to alphabetic index D for chapter three codes reserved for future use.

Master chapter four icd diabetes guidelines, including type one, type two, and gestational types; learn provider documentation, default coding, and combination codes for diabetes with ckd or retinopathy.

Explore insulin pump malfunction coding guidelines, covering underdosing and overdosing. Use T85 first, then T38, and code diabetes with hypoglycemia.

Learn the ICD-10-CM guidelines for secondary diabetes mellitus, coding underlying conditions first (E08), then drug- or condition-induced diabetes (E09), plus long-term drug use and poisoning codes.

Learn chapter five of ICD-10-CM guidelines on mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders, including coding pain with F45.41–F45.42, remission concepts, substance use guidelines, dementia etiology, and factitious disorders.

Explore chapter five CPC questions, including coding alcohol dependence with remission using direct ICD codes, and apply the guideline that when abuse and dependence occur, code dependence.

Explore nervous system diseases and ICD-10-CM guidelines, detailing paralysis types (monoplegia, hemiplegia, paraplegia, quadriplegia) and dominant versus non-dominant coding rules, with pain codes G89 and postoperative pain guidelines.

Master chapter six CPC questions by applying pain management guidelines: code the G code first, then the neck pain site (cervical, M54.2), with examples like G89.11 for acute pain.

Explore chapter seven ICD-10-CM guidelines for eye diseases, focusing on glaucoma coding: identify type and eye, determine stage, and apply bilateral codes or seventh character.

Explore chapter nine ICD-10-CM guidelines for coding hypertension, heart failure, CKD, and related conditions, including when to use combination codes such as I13 and I12, with practical examples.

Review remaining hypertension coding guidelines, linking cerebrovascular disease (I60–I63) to hypertension codes, with stroke and cerebral infarction I63.9, TIA, stenosis, and crisis or perioperative infarction codes like I16.1 and I97.82.

Learn myocardial infarction icd-10-cm guidelines, distinguishing stm i versus non-stemi, using i21 series with site or i21.3 without site, and i22 for subsequent MI, plus i20.5.2 for old MI.