This is the fastest growing segment of the population.
What is the Elderly
100
The first-listed diagnosis is defined as the diagnosis that is the most serious.
True or False
What is True!
The first listed diagnosis is the reason for the encounter. Not necesarily the most serious.
100
Combination coding applies when one code fully describes the condition. ____ coding apples when it takes more than one code to fully describe the condition.
What is Multiple
100
In order to code a gastrointestinal condition with hemorrhage, active bleeding must be present.
True or False
What is False
Active bleeding does not have to be present however there must be documentation that supports active bleeding has occured. The physician must identify the source of the bleeding.
100
CPT stands for what?
What is Current Procedural Terminology
200
These 3 groups are eligible for Medicare.
What is 65 and over; those with disabilities and those with permanent kidney failure.
200
In the outpatient setting it is unacceptable to have a sign or symptom as the first-listed diagnosis.
True or false
What is false
200
In the outpatient setting it is acceptable to code signs and symptoms when you do not have a confirmed diagnosis however you must never code HIV unless the diagnosis is ____.
What is confirmed.
This diagnosis stays in the patients record forever!
200
This kind of fracture occurs when a bone is weakened by disease.
What is Pathologic
200
What association publishes the CPT?
What is the AMA
300
This term is the intentional deception or misrepresentation that an individual knows to be false or does not believe to be true and makes knowing that the deception could result in some unauthorized benefit.
What is Fraud
300
These type of codes are assigned when a patient comes into contact with a health care provider but is not ill or injured.
What is V-Codes
300
When an infectious organism is identified in the chart, you must use an additional ____ to identify it.
What is code.
300
When an accident occurs, an E code should be the first listed diagnosis.
True or False
What is False.
An E code is never a first listed diagnosis.
300
What is the name of the two-digit number or a digit and a number that is located after the CPT code number and provides more detail about the code?
What is modifiers
400
ICD-9-CM stands for what?
What is International Classification of Disease volume 9, Clinical Modification
400
An ICD-9-CM code is considered ____ if it has not been coded to the full number of digits available for that code.
What is Invalid
400
The site to which a malignant neoplasm has spread is the ____ site.
What is metastatic site.
The site it originated is the primary.
400
An infected laceration should be coded as a _____ wound.
What is complicated
A complicated wound is one that includes documentation of delayed healing, delayed treatment, foreign body, or primary infection.
400
What is the word that means assigning multiple codes when one code would do?
What is unbundling
500
There are 3 volumes in ICD-9-CM. The alphabetical index, the tabular and the procedural. Which volume is not used in outpatient coding?
What is Procedural
500
It is acceptable to use only the Alphabetic index to assign ICD-9-CM codes.
True or False
What is False!
Always go to the tabular section to make sure you have the complete code.
500
If a patients diabetes is documented as poorly controlled, a fifth digit for out of control should be assigned.
True or False
What is False
The physician must document uncontrolled or out of control.
500
When coding a poisoning, the poisoning code is sequenced before any manifestation code.
True or False.