A 44 year-old patient is having a pre-operative cardiovascular exam for hysterectomy for menorrhagia. What is the first-listed diagnosis?
The pre-operative cardiovascular exam.
100
What is the code for hairball in stomach, initial encounter?
T18.2XXA
100
What beginning characters are External Causes of Morbidity found?
V, W, X, Y
200
What does CMS stand for?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
200
What is Volume III used for in ICD-9-CM?
Inpatient procedural coding
200
Are subterms essential or non-essential modifiers?
Essential
200
A patient is having sinus surgery for acute on chronic maxillary sinusitis. How is this coded?
J01.00
J32.0
200
What does Excludes 1 mean?
Not coded here
300
The Medicare program is made up of several parts. Which part is affected by the CMS- Hierarchical Condition Categories.
Part B
300
What does NEC stand for in ICD-9-CM?
Not elsewhere classified. The doctor has given a specific diagnosis for which there is no specific code.
300
What is the code for nausea with vomiting?
787.01
300
What is the code for Type 2 diabetes with nephropathy?
E11.21
300
If a patient comes in for a blood transfusion for anemia due to a neoplasm, which condition is coded first?
Anemia due to neoplasm
400
What is the major third-party payer in the United States?
The government
400
The CM in ICD-9-CM stands for what?
Clinical Modification
400
What is the code for right-sided hemiplegia as a late effect ofa cerebrovascular accident?
438.21
400
How is Alzheimer's dementia with behavior disturbances with wandering coded?
G30.9 [F02.81] Z91.83
400
Regarding psychoactive substance use, abuse, and dependence, which of the three (use, abuse, and dependence) is the highest in the hierarchy?
Dependence
500
What is a manifestation?
A manifestation is the outward sign or end-organ damage of an underlying disease.
500
What is the code for malignant hypertensive heart and kidney disease without congestive heart failure and with chronic kidney disease stage I through stage IV, or unspecified?
404.10
500
How is displaced fracture of the body of the scapula, right shoulder, subsequent encounter for nonunion coded?
S42.111K
500
A patient refused to take her seizure medication because of how it makes her feel. As a result of underdosing she has an epileptic seizure. Which code diagnosis is first-listed?