Holiday Trivia
In What Decade did the first Christmas stamp appear in the US?
a. 1920's
b. 1940's
c. 1950's
d. 1960's
d. the 1960s. Following years of requests for a holiday stamp, the U.S. Postal Service issued its first Christmas stamp in Pennsylvania in November 1962.
________ hypertension is a continuous, mild blood pressure elevation that can usually be controlled by medication.
Select one:
a. Malignant
b. Benign
c. Interrelated
d. Gaming
b. Benign
________ is an inherited bone growth that causes hearing loss and is reported with category codes H80.
Select one:
a. Fibromas
b. Surfer's ear
c. Tympanitis
d. Otosclerosis
d. Otosclerosis
Diagnoses that relate to a patient's previous medical problem and that have no bearing on the patient's present condition should be ____ when coding.
Select one:
a. handled according to specific insurance guidelines
b. disclosed
c. included
d. excluded
d. excluded
Diagnostic codes on an insurance claim explain
Select one:
a. the providers identification
b. the patient's condition that was treated during the visit
c. the professional services provided during the visit
d. the supplies that were provided to the patient
b. the patient's condition that was treated during the visit
What Country introduced the gingerbread house and candy cane to the US?
Select one:
a. Germany
b. Poland
c. Switzerland
d. France
a. Germany - both sweets have become synonymous with the holidays in the U.S. thanks to the millions of German immigrants who arrived in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The colored portion of the eye is the:
Select one:
a. Ciliary body
b. Pupil
c. Iris
d. Sclera
e. Lens
c. Iris
________ is inward turning (inversion) of the eyelid.
Select one:
a. Ectropion
b. Entropion
c. Blepharoptosis
b. Entropion
Why is the correct sequence of codes on an insurance claim important?
Select one:
a. It is not important as long as the correct indicator is used for each line of service.
b. To make the chronology of patient care events understood.
c. To make the severity of disease understood.
d. To make the chronology of patient care events understood and to make the severity of disease understood.
d. To make the chronology of patient care events understood and to make the severity of disease understood.
When coding insurance claims, the _____ code will determine how much the practice receives.
Select one:
a. ICD-10-CM
b. HCPCS
c. CPT
d. CMS-1500
c. CPT
What US State began the tradition of Christmas in July?
a. Wyoming
b. Florida
c. Texas
d. North Carolina
d. In Brevard, North Carolina on July 24 and 25, 1933, at a girls' camp called Keystone Camp.
________ous humor is the fluid found in the anterior chamber of the eye.
Select one:
a. Vitre
b. Scler
c. Fovea central
d. Aque
d. Aque
3 protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal column is called:
a. Pia Mater
b. Dura Mater
c. Meninges
d. arachnoid membrane
c. Meninges
The first three characters of an ICD-10-CM code are composed as ____________.
Select one:
a. Character 1 (alpha), Character 2 (alpha), Character 3 (numeric)
b. Character 1 (numeric), Character 2 (numeric), Character 3 (alpha)
c. Character 1 (numeric), Character 2 (alpha), Character 3 (alpha)
d. Character 1 (alpha), Character 2 (numeric), Character 3 (numeric)
d. Character 1 (alpha), Character 2 (numeric), Character 3 (numeric)
If a patient is seen to treat anemia associated with neoplasm and the treatment is only for anemia, what is the first listed code?
Select one:
a. Anemia in neoplastic disease
b. The neoplasm code
c. The order doesn't matter in this situation
The neoplasm code
Which of the four presidents on Mt. Rushmore is rumored to have had his own recipe for eggnog?
Select one:
a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Theodore Roosevelt
a. George Washington
The combining form ophthalm/o means:
Select one:
a. Eye
b. Light
c. Vision
d. muscles of the eye
a. Eye
Collection of spinal nerves below the spinal cord:
a. vagus nerve
b. parasympathetic nerves
c. cerebral cortex
d. cauda equina
d. cauda equina
Multiple coding is necessary to fully describe the infection of the urinary tract and the causative organism, E. coli. True or False?
True
________ is a circulatory failure that represents a type of organ dysfunction.
Select one:
a. Sepsis
b. Septicemia
c. Uremia
d. Septic shock
d. Septic shock
Which U.S. President was the first to recognize Hanukkah with a menorah lighting at the White House?
A. Dwight D. Eisenhower
B. Jimmy Carter
C. Bill Clinton
D. Barack Obama
B. Jimmy Carter
Ischemia means that blood flow is:
Select one:
a. decreased
b. stopped
c. increased
a. decreased
The shaft or middle portion of a long bone:
a. diaphysis
b. epiphysis
c. epiphyseal line
d. metaphysis
a. diaphysis
Most healthcare professionals have a well-defined ____________ which easily draws a boundary on things which the professional can do and things they are not supposed to do.
Scope of Practice
Which codes are used when a person who is not ill receives health care services?
Select one:
a. Y codes
b. Z codes
c. J codes
b. Z codes