Which is TRUE about ICD-10-CM codes?

A) The first character is always alphabetic; the second character can be alphabetic or numeric.
B) All ICD-10-CM codes have seven characters.
C) The first character is always alphabetic; the second character is always numeric.
D) Use of decimal points with codes that have more than three characters is not mandatory.


C

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