Medical Terminology
This is the study of disease. Example: biopsy of skin or tissue.
What is pathology?
This chamber of the heart receives blood that has just left the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
This notation indicates that 2 diagnoses cannot be billed together for the same encounter.
What is Excludes 1 note?
This organization copyrights and maintains the CPT codes.
What is the AMA?
This modifier describes repeat clinical diagnostic lab services.
What is Modifier 91?
This means the prefix "brady-"
What is slow?
This part of the brain is known as the thinking area and is responsible for thought, judgement, memory and association
What is the cerebrum?
Notes: Middle region of the cerebrum are spaces/canals known as ventricles. Ventricles contain watery fluid that flows though out the brain around the spinal cord.
This is what Exclude 2 indicates.
What is can code both condition if they both exist?
This is how new additions and revisions are indicated in the CPT® codebook each year.
What is Green print?
This modifier describes discontinued hospital outpatient procedure requiring anesthesia prior to anesthesia administration.
What is modifier 73?
This is the human body's ability to maintain stability amidst changing conditions.
What is Homeostasis?
This is a protrusion of a part of the stomach through the diaphragm
What is a diaphragmatic hernia?
Note: The term hernia is commonly used to describe the digestive system
These type of codes can never be a primary ICD-10-CM code.
What are External Cause Codes?
This is where you can find clinical examples in the CPT codebook.
What is Appendix C?
This coding guideline describes coding for fractures. If a fracture is not documented as displaced or non displaced, the code assigned would be for _____________ fracture.
What is displaced fracture?
This part of the body can be referred to by combining form "cephal/o"
What is the head?
This controls body temperature, sleep, and appetite.
What is the Hypothalamus?
This is what the 7th character S indicates in Chapter 19 of ICD-10-CM
What is Sequela?
This is in appendix N in CPT codebook.
What is the summary of resequenced CPT codes?
This information describes information for coders to follow about specific codes contained in each section.
What are Coding Guidelines?
This is the form of milk produced the first few days after giving birth.
What is Colostrum?
This structure is located at the neck of the bladder and surrounds the urethra.
What is the prostate?
This is the time frame defining when pain becomes chronic.
What is no time frame, its based on providers clinical determination?
This is where CPT modifiers are found.
What is Appendix A?
This coding guideline is used in both the alphabetic index and tabular index to enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease without affecting code assignment.
What are parenthesis ( ) ?
Example-Anemia (essential) (general) (hemoglobin) (infantile) (primary) (profound)?