As anticipated, significant updates were made to the ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines for 2017. These guidelines are a set of rules developed to accompany and complement the official conventions and instructions provided within the ICD-10-CM itself. These guidelines are located in the front of the 2017 ICD-10-CM Coding book. Be sure to take a look at the date at the beginning of the guidelines, if it doesn’t state “FY 2017” then download the current version at 2017 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting