ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes Are Entered in Block 21 of the CMS-1500

question 5

Multiple Choice

ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are entered in Block 21 of the CMS-1500 claim. A maximum of __________ ICD-10-CM codes may be entered on a single claim.

• A) 4
• B) 8
• C) 12
• D) 16

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Variance

A statistical measure of dispersion, indicating how spread out the values of a dataset are.

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