FREE MEDICAL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MEDICAL

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FREE MEDICAL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MEDICAL

CODING EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -36 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Category

Answer:

Refers to diagnoses coded listed within a specific three-digit categoryExample-category 250, Diabetes Mellitus

Question 2: SubCategories

Answer:

Refers to the groupings of four digits codes listed under three-digit categories

Question 3: Sequencing

Answer:

The process of listing ICD 9CM codes in the proper order

Question 4: E Codes

Answer:

Specific ICD9-CM codes used to identify the cause of injury , poisoning, and other adverse affects(never primary, always eternalexamples-car accident.

Question 5: Down Coding-

Answer:

The process where the insurance carriers reduce the value of a procedure and the resulting reimbursement due to either 1)a mismatchof CPT code and description or 2) ICD9-CM code does not justify the procedure or level of service

Question 6: ADVERSE

Answer:

Any response to a drug that is noxious and unintended and occurs with proper dosage

Question 7: volume 2

Answer:

see alpha list

Question 8: Multiple

Answer:

Refers to the need to use more than one ICD 9 CM code to fully identify a coding condition

Question 9: Late Effec

Answer:

A residual effect (condition produced after the acute phase of an illness or injury has ended

Question 10: ICD-10

Answer:

International Clasifications of Diseases, 10th revision

Question 11: Carry-Over Lines-

Answer:

Are always indented more than two spaces from the level of the preceding line

Question 12: Diagnosis

Answer:

A written descrpition of the reason (s) for the procedure, service, or encounter (signs, symptons, complaints)

Question 13: Primary Code

Answer:

The ICD-9-CM code that defines the main reason for the current encounter

Question 14: Rule Out

Answer:

Refers to a method used to indicate that a condition is probable, suspected or questionable but unconfirmed.

Question 15: ICD-9

Answer:

International Classifications of Diseases, 9th revision

Question 16: V Codes

Answer:

Specific ICD 9 cm code used to identify encounters for reasons other than illness or injury, for example, immunization

Question 17: Coding

Answer:

The process of transferring written or verbal descriptions of diseases, injuries and procedures into numerical designations

Question 18: Main Term

Answer:

Refers to listing in the Alphabetic Index appearing BOLD FACE type

Question 19: Concurrent

Answer:

When a patient is being treated by more than one provide for different conditions at the same time

Question 20: CPT Current Procedural Terminology

Answer:

Listing of codes and descriptions for procedures, services and supplies published by the American Medical Association. Use to bill insurance carriers.

Question 21: Mainfestions

Answer:

Characteristsics signs of symptons of an illness

Question 22: Etiology

Answer:

The cause (s) or origin of a disease.

Question 23: Residual

Answer:

The long term condition (s) resulting from a previous acute illness or injury

Question 24: Combination

Answer:

A code that combines a diagnosis with an associated secondary process or complication

Question 25: Alphabetic

Answer:

Portion of the of the ICD9-CM that lists definitions and codes in alphabetic order.example-also called Volume @2

Question 26: Complication

Answer:

The Occurrence of two or more diseases in the same patient at the same time

Question 27: ACUTE

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Refers to the condition that is the primary reason forthe current encounter

Question 28: Chronic

Answer:

Continuing over a long period of time or reoccuring frequently