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CPC Current Procedural Terminology Certification

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Gluco - glyco
Sugar - sweet
Foot
Whole body inflammatory state. It generally refers to SIRS that is due to an infection.
Clearinghouse.

2. Chronic
Loosen - dissolve
Through - between - across - apart
A condition that develops slowly and lasts a long period of time.
Along side

3. What is ABN?
Advance Beneficiary Notification
Puncture
Half
Against

4. What OIG document should a provider reveiw for potential problem areas that will receive special scrutiny in the upcoming year?
Supplies digestive enzymes.
Treatment
Jaundice
OIG Work Plan. Each year in October.

5. Volume 3 of ICD-9-VM contains what?
Vomiting
Alphabetic Index and Tabular Index of Procedures: Procedures performed in the inpatient setting.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Law passed by Congress to improve the portability and continuity of healthcare coverage.
Supplies digestive enzymes.

6. -ology
Study of
Brain
Liver
Vagina

7. What is AMA?
Study of
Red
American Medical Association.
A partial-thickness burn involving the epidermis and the dermis.

8. E Codes
Air - lungs
Codes reported to indentify how an injury occurred and the location when it occurred. Never sequenced first.
Down - from
Jaundice

9. What is Part B?

10. Naso
Surgical opening
Common bile duct
Nose
Shape - mold - repair - operative revision - plastic repair

11. -iasis
Condition of - presence in urine
Look into - see
Condition of
Red

12. Neuro
Child
Nerve
Rib
Jaundice

13. Histo
Tissue
Common bile duct
Tabular List: Diagonosis codes organized in order by code.
Loosen - dissolve

14. Pyelo
Skin
Pelvis of kidney
Half
Pain

15. Laparo
Abdomen
World Health Organization. A group that deals with health care issues on a global basis.
Nephrolithiasis.
Blood

16. What is CPC?
Sugar - sweet
Current Procedural Terminology. What was done into codes.
Measure
$100 or 25% of cost.

17. pharyngo
Within inner - on the inside
Gall bladder
Throat
No - not

18. Tunica vaginalis is part of which system?
Much -many
Male reproductive.
Near - toward
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Basic guidelines for private prctice and rules.

19. The amount on an ABN should be within how much of the cost to the patient?
Sensation
$100 or 25% of cost.
Water
Chest

20. Volume 2 of ICD-9-CM contains what?
OIG Work Plan. Each year in October.
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.
International Classification of Disease - 9th Clinical Modification. Why was done in codes.
Middle

21. Narco
Around - covering
Sleep
Both
Ovary

22. Entero
Blood vessel
Intestine
Sugar - sweet
Male reproductive.

23. -meter
Two - twice
Intestine
Vessle (blood or lymph)
Measure

24. Hema - hemato - hemo
Blood
A fracture bone that pierces the skin.
Red
Urine will not be able to flow from the kidney to the bladder.

25. Thyro
Connective tissue
Large - long
Tumor
Thyroid gland

26. Severe Sepsis
Treatment
Sepis with associated acute organ dysfunction.
To repair a defect - suture
Mouth

27. -esthesia
Illium (bone)
Medicare's Supplemental Medical Insurance; covers physician services and durable medical equipment that are not paid for under Part A.
Both
Sensation

28. Trans-
Surgical removal
Weakness.
Tumor - swelling - hernia - sac
Across

29. Cephalo
Connective tissue
Sepis with associated acute organ dysfunction.
A fracture bone that pierces the skin.
Head

30. What is Part A?

31. -ectomy
Surgical removal
White
Straight
Poison - infection

32. -opia
Vision
Supplies digestive enzymes.
Gall bladder
Measure

33. -penia
Thyroid gland
Two few
Month
To sew up in position - fixation

34. Neo-
Incision - to cut into
New
Oviduct
Part D

35. Renal
Joint
Lens.
Kidney
Translating medical documentation into codes.

36. plegia
Paralysis
Sugar - sweet
No - not
Two - twice

37. Retro-
Half
Rib
Breathing
Behind - backward

38. Gastro
Codes reported to indentify how an injury occurred and the location when it occurred. Never sequenced first.
Pelvis of kidney
Along side
Stomach

39. Ophthalmo
Blood
Chest
Liver
Eye

40. Hemi-
Half
Stomach
Abdomen
One

41. -cide
Thyroid gland
Half
Within
Kill

42. What is OIG?
Large
Office of Inspector General. Makes sure everyone is in compliance
Tooth
Stone - calculus

43. What is HIPAA?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Law passed by Congress to improve the portability and continuity of healthcare coverage.
Nervous.
Thyroid gland
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.

44. phlebo
Heart
Nose
Supplies digestive enzymes.
Vein

45. Arterio
Artery
Around - covering
Tabular List: Diagonosis codes organized in order by code.
Slow

46. Ambi-
Machine
Both
Medicare's Supplemental Medical Insurance; covers physician services and durable medical equipment that are not paid for under Part A.
Heart

47. V codes
Small
Practice - process
Middle
Codes used to describe circumstances or condition that could influence patient care.

48. What are NCD's interpreted at the MAC level considered?
Vision
Ovary
After
LCD

49. What is PHI?
Personal Health Information.
Month
Blue
Puncture

50. -ptosis
Puncture
Falling
Around
Seizure - convulse