When Coding Hypertensive Cerebrovascular Disease, a Code from the 401-438

question 6

True/False

When coding hypertensive cerebrovascular disease, a code from the 401-438 code range is assigned first followed by an additional code for the hypertension type.

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Definitions:

COV

Coefficient of Variation, a standardized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution.

Bivariate Distribution

A probability distribution describing two random variables and how their probabilities are distributed over different ranges of values.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how far each number in the set is from the mean.

Covariance

A measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together, indicating the direction of their linear relationship.