Medicine Services Exam Questions and Answers
What are "Sleep Studies?" - Answer-The monitoring of a patient's sleep for 6 or more hours.
What is included in the reporting of sleep studies? - Answer-The tracing (technical component) and the physician's review, interpretation, and report.
If ...
What are "Sleep Studies?" - Answer-The monitoring of a patient's sleep for 6 or more
hours.
What is included in the reporting of sleep studies? - Answer-The tracing (technical
component) and the physician's review, interpretation, and report.
If a physician performs only the professional component, how would you report this? -
Answer-Append modifier -26 to the appropriate sleep study code.
What is Polysomnography? - Answer-Is the measurement of the brain waves during
sleep but with the added feature of recording the various stages of sleep (i.e., excited,
relaxed, drowsy, asleep, or deep sleep).
What are "F-wave" studies? - Answer-Is a nerve conduction study that assess motor
nerve function along the entire extent of that nerve.
What are "parameters?" - Answer-What is being measured during a sleep test.
Example: measurement of snoring or blood pressure.
Electromyographic (EMG) - Answer-Studies using needles and electric current to
stimulate nerves and record the results.
What are Central Nervous System Assessments/Tests used for? - Answer-To identify
psychological testing, speech/language (aphasia) assessment, developmental progress
assessments, and thinking/reasoning status examination (neurobehavioral).
What are the CNS assessment tests based on? - Answer-Per-hour basis.
What is bundled into the hydration services codes? - Answer-Local anesthesia, placing
the IV line, accessing an indwelling access line/catheter/port, flushing at the end of the
infusion, and all standard supplies.
What are infusion codes based on? - Answer-Based on the time and type of infusion.
Concurrent Infusion - Answer-is when there is one site and two lines infusing at the
same time.
noninvasive - Answer-not entering the body cavity
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