-Physician office
-Hospital
-Nursing facility
-Outpatient clinic
-Emergency department
-Observation area of hospital
What is PLACE OF SERVICE?
100
Patient's description of the symptoms or other reasons for seeking medical care.
What is the CHIEF COMPLAINT?
100
assign four or five digit codes if they exist, or if you see the "stop sign blotch" next to the code in the tabular list.
What is CODING TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SPECIFICITY?
100
Divided into 3 volumes and is maintaned by the National Center for Health Statistics.
What a the ICD-9 CM BOOK?
200
Goiter with hyperthyroidism.
What is ICD9 code 242.00?
200
history, exam, MDM
What are THE 3 KEY COMPONENTS OF E&M CODING?
200
Service performed by a physician to advise a requesting physician about a patient's condition and care.
What is a CONSULTATION?
200
supplementary classification for the causes of injury, poisoning, and adverse events and are always sequenced after the condition code
What are E Codes?
200
Has received professional services from the physician within the past three years
What is an ESTABLISHED PATIENT?
300
Pneumonia due to SARS
What is ICD9 code 480.3?
300
Problem-focused, Expanded problem-focused, Detailed, and Comprehensive
What are LEVELS OF EXAMINATION?
300
Medical services such as annual physicals that aim to prevent disease and / or detect problems early.
What is PREVENTIVE MEDICINE?
300
Multiple E/M services provided by the physician to the same patient on the same day are reported by one E/M code in most circumstances
What is THE ROLL UP RULE?
300
This is the system Medicare uses to make sure everybody codes correctly.
What is NCCI?
400
An established patient is seen in the physicians where a problem focused exam with medical decision making of low complexity is completed for a patient who diagnosed with acute otitis media.
What is CPT code 99212 and ICD9 code 382.9
400
Counseling, Coordination of care, Nature of the presenting problem, Time
What are CONTRIBUTORY COMPONENTS?
400
Subjective information about illness and symptoms provided by a patient to a physician
What is HISTORY?
400
states that additional signs and symptoms that may not be associated routinely with a disease process should be coded when present
What is the GENERAL CODING GUIDELINES?
400
an inventory of body systems obtained through a series of questions asked by the physician--needed to figure out the extent of history for an E/M.
What is ROS?
500
An physician is doing his normal rounds on the ICU floor of a hospital. He is paged to help a patient who is in cardiac arrest. The patient is eventually revived. The physician spent a total of 30 minutes rescucitating the patient who is eventually stabilized.
What is CPT code 99291 and ICD9 code 427.5
500
the process of establishing a diagnosis and determining treatment or management of the condition
What is MEDICAL DECISION MAKING?
500
The last four E/M components: counseling, coordination of care, nature of presenting problem and time.
What are CONTRIBUTORY COMPONENTS?
500
The first column list the anatomical location and the next six columns relate to behavior
What is the NEOPLASM TABLE?
500
NEC -not elsewhere classified, NOS-not otherwise specified or unspecified