preoperative visit, intraoperative services, and postoperative visits
100
What is the type of sedation that allows a procedure to be performed without pain to the patient, but the patient is not completely asleep?
Conscious or moderate sedation
100
Repair of a wound should be measured in or converted to what unit of measure?
centimeters
100
Fracture codes are based on what?
Treatment type
200
suffix for molding or surgically forming
What is -plasty?
200
What is the Surgery section?
the largest section in the CPT manual
200
What is the usual global surgery period for a major procedure?
90 days
200
There is no tissue remaining for pathological examination after this method has been used. The method is excision, destruction, or shaving?
Destruction
200
Which term describes a reduction - rotation, manipulation, or stabilization?
manipulation
300
free flow or withdrawal of fluids from a wound or cavity
What is drainage?
300
What are the Guidelines?
contain important information in the beginning of a section
300
Local anesthesia, typical follow-up care & an E/M visit in which decision for surgery is made are all included in the ________ _________.
surgical package
300
Using the "rules of nines", an adult leg is what percentage of the human body?
18%
300
True or false - Surgical and fracture repair codes in the musculoskeletal subsection include the application and removal of the initial casts,splints, or strapping applied by the treating physician.
True
400
removal of a small piece of living tissue for diagnostic examination
What is biopsy?
400
A patient who has been treated within the past 3 years by the physician or a member of his/her practice who has the same specialty is considered a(n) ______ patient.
established
400
What is the code for anesthesia for bilateral vasectomy?
00921
400
What is the code for suture of superficial wounds of the cheek: one 1 cm laceration, one 3 cm laceration, and one 2 cm laceration?
12014 (Repair, wound, simple (6 cm))
400
What is the code for strapping of a 46 year old patient's knee?
29530 (strapping, knee)
500
suffix for incision into
What is -otomy?
500
When using an unlisted procedure code to report a surgical service, this must accompany the claim.
What is special report?
500
What is the code for a fine needle aspiration of the breast without imaging?
10021 (Fine needle aspiration)
500
When coding 3 biopsies of the skin, performed at the same visit, the codes reported would be:
11100, 11101 X 2 units
500
What is the code for an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair?