AHIMA CCA Exam Quizzlet-1025 Questions
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Questions
1
In the laboratory section of CPT, if a group of tests overlaps two or more panels, report the
panel that incorporates the greatest number of tests to fulfill the code definition. What would a
coder do with the remaining test codes that are not part of a panel?
a. Report the remaining tests using individual test codes, according to CPT.
b. Do not report the remaining individual test codes.
c. Report only those test codes that are part of a panel.
d. Do not report a test code more than once regardless whether the test was performed twice.
- ✔✔Correct Answer: A
Reporting additional test codes that overlap codes in a panel allows the coder to assign all
appropriate codes for services provided. It is inappropriate to assign additional panel codes
when all codes in the panel are not performed. Reporting individual lab codes is appropriate
when all codes in a panel have not been provided (AMA 2012b, 402).
2.
An electrolyte panel (80051) in the laboratory section of CPT consists of tests for carbon dioxide
(82374), chloride (82435), potassium (84132), and sodium (84295). If each of the component
codes are reported and billed individually on a claim form, this would be a form of:
a. Optimizing
,b. Unbundling
c. Sequencing
d. Classifying - ✔✔Correct Answer: B
Unbundling occurs when a panel code exists and the individual tests are reported rather than
the panel code (AMA 2012b, 402).
3.
Coronary arteriography serves as a diagnostic tool in detecting obstruction within the coronary
arteries. Identify the technique using two catheters inserted percutaneously through the
femoral artery.
a. Combined right and left (88.54)
b. Stones (88.55)
c. Judkins (88.56)
d. Other and unspecified (88.57) - ✔✔Correct Answer: C
The Judkins technique provides x-ray imaging of the coronary arteries by introducing one
catheter into the femoral artery with maneuvering up into the left coronary artery orifice,
followed by a second catheter guided up into the right coronary artery, and subsequent
injection of a contrast material (Schraffenberger 2012, 206).
,4.Ensuring the continuity of future care by providing information to the patient's attending
physician, referring physician, and any consulting physicians is a function of the:
a. Discharge summary
b. Autopsy report
c. Incident report
d. Consent to treatment - ✔✔Correct Answer: A
The discharge summary is a concise account of the patient's illness, course of treatment,
response to treatment, and condition at the time the patient is discharged (Johns 2011, 78).
5.
This document includes a microscopic description of tissue excised during surgery:
a. Recovery room record
b. Pathology report
c. Operative report
d. Discharge summary - ✔✔Correct Answer: B
The pathology report describes specimens examined by the pathologist (Johns 2011, 77).
6.
, CMS developed medically unlikely edits (MUEs) to prevent providers from billing units of
services greater than the norm would indicate. These MUEs were implemented on January 1,
2007, and are applied to which code set?
a. Diagnosis-related groups
b. HCPCS/CPT codes
c. ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes
d. Resource utilization groups - ✔✔Correct Answer: B
CMS developed MUEs to prevent providers from billing units in excess and receiving
inappropriate payments. This new editing was the result of the outpatient prospective payment
system which pays providers passed on the HCPCS/CPT code and units. Payment is directly
related to units for specified HCPCS/CPT codes assigned to an ambulatory payment
classification (CMS 2012b).
7.
Identify the ICD-9-CM diagnostic code for other specified aplastic anemia secondary to
chemotherapy.
a. 284.9
b. 284.89
c. 285.9
d. 285.22 - ✔✔Correct Answer: B
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