The CPT Manual
CPT Coding
Conventions/Symbols
Modifiers
Appendices
100
Define the acronym CPT? (Define & Spell)
What is Current Procedural Terminology.
100
What is the name of the indented terms which are listed under a main term in the Index that alter or add to that main term's condition?
What are modifying Terms.
100
What are the representations which are attached to specific CPT codes to designate information relevant to the particular code?
What are CPT Symbols.
100
This modifier identifies services which are not usually reported together, but which may, under certain circumstances, be reported together as distinct procedures?
What is Modifier 59.
100
This Appendix lists CPT modifiers that often are added to CPT codes?
What is Appendix A.
200
Define the CPT Manual?
What is the code set to describe services generally provided by physicians and other healthcare professionals to individual patients.
200
The use of a comma between code numbers indicates the presence of only those numbers displayed. If more than one code is listed, then all codes must be reviewed in the tabular to make an accurate choice. These are called?
What are Multiple Codes.
200
What are the codes identified with the plus sign, indicating they cannot be reported alone?
What is Add-on Code.
200
This modifier is added to the secondary procedures when providers perform multiple procedures on the same date of service?
What is Modifier 51.
200
This Appendix lists add-on codes in numerical order?
What is Appendix D.
300
What is the purpose of CPT Codes?
What is intended to accurately describe a set of services and provide a conventional method of communicating this information among providers, payers, administrators, and regulators.
300
What type of codes are indicated by a hyphen?
What is Range of Codes.
300
What do you call the primary code associated with a procedure, sometimes accompanied by an additional code, sometimes accompanied by an add-on code?
What is Parent Code.
300
This modifier designates bilateral procedures, identical procedures performed on both sides of the body (bilaterally) during the same operative session?
What is Modifier 50.
300
This Appendix includes numerous clinical examples of many of the CPT E/M codes?
What is Appendix C.
400
How is the CPT "Index" organized?
What is alphabetically by main term.
400
In some code sections, multiple sequential codes have the same initial descriptor; common descriptor elements that are not repeated in each code. The common portion of the code series appears in the description of the first code of the series, followed by a semicolon (;) and then the unique portion of the code. What is this called?
What is Indented Code Structure.
400
What indicates the correct code will be found elsewhere?
What is “See”.
400
This modifier indicated the provider who performed a procedure repeated that same procedure during the global period of the original period?
What is Modifier 76.
400
This Appendix lists more than 100 modifiers that identify specific genetic tests?
What is Appendix I.
500
When was the first CPT Manual published & who are the administrators of the CPT Manual?
What is 1966/AMA (American Medical Association).
500
A procedure for which no specific code exists to describe the services provided is called?
What is Unlisted Procedure.
500
Individual codes or groups of codes may include these to provide specific instructions unique to those codes?
What are Parenthetical Notes.
500
This modifier indicates that a patient returned to the operating room for an unplanned second procedure by the same provider during the global period of an earlier procedure?
What is Modifier 78 (only used when the second procedure is related to the original procedure).
500
This Appendix lists CPT Codes that do not have Modifier 51 added to the code, even when they are performed with other procedures?
What is Appendix E.
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