CCA Mock Exam, 100 Questions With 100%
Correct Answers 2024.
Your organization is sending confidential patient information across the Internet using technology that
will transform the original data into unintelligible code that can be re-created by authorized users. This
technique is called
a. firewall
c. a call-back process
b. validity processing
d. data encryption
d. data encryption
As part of a concurrent record review, you need to locate the initial plan of action based on the
attending physician's initial assessment of the patient. You can expect to find this documentation
either within the body of the history and physical or in the
a. doctor's admitting progress note
b. nurse's admit note
c. review of systems
d. discharge summary
a. doctor's admitting progress note
Employing the SOAP style of progress notes, choose the "assessment" statement from the following:
a. Patient states low back pain with sciatica is as severe as it was on admission
b. Patient moving about very cautiously and appears to be in pain
c. Adjust pain medication; begin physical therapy tomorrow
d. Sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy
d. Sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy
You have been hired to work with a computer-assisted coding initiative. The technology that you will
be working with is
a. electronic data interchange
b. intraoperability
c. message standards
d. natural language processing
d. natural language processing
A final progress note is appropriate as a discharge summary for a hospitalization in which the patient
a. dies within 24 hours of admission
b. has no comorbidities or complications during this episode of care
c. was admitted within 30 days with the same diagnosis
d. was an obstetric admission with a normal delivery and no complications
,d. was an obstetric admission with a normal delivery and no complications
In reviewing a medical record for coding purposes, the coder notes that the discharge summary has
not yet been transcribed. In its absence, the best place to look for the patients's response to treatment
and documentation of any complications that may have developed during this episode of care is in the
a. doctor's progress note section
b. operative report
c. history and physical
d. doctor's orders
a. doctor's progress note section
You would expect to find documentation regarding the assessment of an obstetric patient's lochia,
fundus, and perineum on the
a. prenatal record
b. labor record
c. delivery room record
d. postpartum record
d. postpartum record
A patient is admitted through the emergency department with diabetes mellitus. Three days after
admission, the physician documents uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. What is the "present on
admission" (POA) indicator for uncontrolled diabetes mellitus?
a. "Y"
b. "U"
c. "W"
d. "N"
d. "N"
(the DM wasn't considered uncontrolled until 3 days after admission)
CMI Table
b. 2.965807
The special form that plays the central role in planning and providing care at nursing, psychiatric, and
rehabilitation facilities is the
a. interdisciplinary patient care plan
b. medical history and review of systems
c. interval summary
d. problem list
a. interdisciplinary patient care plan
What legal term is used in describing sexual harassment in reference to unwelcome sexual advances,
request for sexual favors, and verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature made in return for job
benefits?
, a. res ipsa loquitur
b. qui tam
c. quid pro quo
d. respondeat superior
c. quid pro quo
Your facility would like to improve physician documentation in order to allow improved coding. As
coding supervisor, you have found it very effective to provide the physicians with
a. a copy of the facility coding guidelines, along with written information on improved documentation
b. the UHDDS and information on where each data element is collected and/or verified in your facility
c. regular in-service presentations on documentation, including its importance and tips for
improvement
d. feedback on specific instances when improved documentation would improve coding
d. feedback on specific instances when improved documentation would improve coding
Table
a. 100%
Which of the following diagnoses or procedures would prevent the normal delivery code, 650, from
being assigned?
a. occiput presentation
b. single liveborn
c. episiotomy
d. low forceps
d. low forceps
Which of the following are considered late effects regardless of time?
a. congenital defect
b. nonunion
c. nonhealing fracture
d. poisoning
b. nonunion
Patient is admitted for elective cholecystectomy for treatment of chronic cholecystitis with
cholelithiasis. Prior to administration of general anesthesia, patient suffers cerebral thrombosis.
Surgery is subsequently canceled. Code and sequence the coding from the following codes:
574.10 Calculus of gallbladder with other cholecystitis without mention of obstruction
434.00 Cerebral thrombosis without cerebral infarction
V64.1 Surgical or other procedure not carried out because of contraindication
b. 574.10, 434.00, V64.1
Some ICD-9-CM codes are exempt from POA reporting because they
a. represent circumstances regarding the health care encounter or factors influencing health status
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