Answer:
The importance of having the Official Guidelines as a required component of the ICD-10-CM/PCS code set in the final rule of the electronic transactions and coding standards is to assist the United States health information system with a coding system that can make it easy for providers of healthcare services to determine payment, gather information about diseases, categorize and code each type of condition, symptom and procedure; in addition, it can greatly assist electronic health recording for procedures used on patients admitted in hospitals.