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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. Cranio
Cartilage
Connective tissue
Skull
Vein

2. Non-
Pain
No - not
Kidney
Uterus

3. What is HIPAA?
Practice - process
When a service is not expected to be covered by Medicare.
Across
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Law passed by Congress to improve the portability and continuity of healthcare coverage.

4. Histo
$100 or 25% of cost.
Insanity
After
Tissue

5. -lysis
Heart
Large - long
Study of
Loosen - dissolve

6. What is ABN?
Medicare's Supplemental Medical Insurance; covers physician services and durable medical equipment that are not paid for under Part A.
Nervous.
Advance Beneficiary Notification
A systemic disease that is associated with microorganisms or toxins in the blood. These toxins are caused by bacteria - viruses - fungi - or other organisms.

7. Asthenia
Stomach
Outer - or on the outside
Weakness.
Thyroid gland

8. Febr
Medicare's Supplemental Medical Insurance; covers physician services and durable medical equipment that are not paid for under Part A.
Practice - process
Fever
Death

9. Ictero
Lens.
Jaundice
Vessle (blood or lymph)
Whole body inflammatory state. It generally refers to SIRS that is due to an infection.

10. -esthesia
Sensation
Machine
Breast
Heat - temperature

11. Mega-
Large
Cartilage
Clearinghouse.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Law passed by Congress to improve the portability and continuity of healthcare coverage.

12. Brady-
Outer - or on the outside
Slow
Tumor
Heat

13. Trans-
Across
Death
Two
Within

14. phlebo
Vein
Cartilage
Apart
Loosen - dissolve

15. Metro
Blue
A condition that develops slowly and lasts a long period of time.
Measure
Uterus

16. Where is the great saphenous vein located?
Leg.
Malleus.
Fraud.
Surgical opening

17. Thrombo
Clot
Slow
Gall bladder
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.

18. -therapy
Treatment
Middle
Rupture
Condition of

19. Ecto-
Rectum
Outer - or on the outside
Insanity
Gall

20. Hepa - hepato
Single - one
Liver
Behind - backward
Woman

21. Pre-
Blood vessel
Before
Nephrolithiasis.
Urine will not be able to flow from the kidney to the bladder.

22. -penia
Puncture
Two few
Against
Skull

23. Erythro
Fraud.
Large
A fractured bone that does not pierce the skin.
Red

24. Inter-
Pus
Puncture
Between
Clot

25. -oma
Across
Tumor
Kidney
Condition of

26. Myelo
Vomiting
Half
Spinal cord - bone marrow
American Medical Association.

27. Pyro
Gall
Heat - temperature
Hemorrhage - flow
Head

28. -pexy
Urine
Rib
To sew up in position - fixation
Ileum (part of small intestine)

29. V codes
Blood vessel
Foot
Codes used to describe circumstances or condition that could influence patient care.
Anus

30. Leuko
No - not
Urine
White
Breast

31. Thoraco
A full-thickness burns that involve the epidermis - dermis - and varying levels of the subcutaneous and underlying structures.
Mucous membrane
Against
Chest

32. -gram
Male reproductive.
Liver
Record
In - inside

33. -cide
Out
Stone - calculus
Vomiting
Kill

34. -pnea
Two
Breathing
Surgical removal
Malleus.

35. -ptosis
Brain
Condition of
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.
Falling

36. Epi-
Foot
No - not
Above - over
Sleep

37. Mal-
Falling
Jaundice
Bad - poor - disordered
After

38. Dis-
Fear - dread
Child
Codes reported to indentify how an injury occurred and the location when it occurred. Never sequenced first.
Apart

39. -graphy
Artery
Woman
Shape - mold - repair - operative revision - plastic repair
Practice - process

40. -emia
Surgical opening
Blood
Blood vessel
Male reproductive.

41. What is CMS?
Muscle
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Basic guidelines for private prctice and rules.
Current Procedural Terminology. What was done into codes.
Around - covering

42. Tunica vaginalis is part of which system?
Male reproductive.
Much -many
Sytemic response to infection - burns - trauma - or cancer.
Insanity

43. An entity that processes nonstandard health information they receive from another entity into a standard is considered what?
Across
An inactive - residual effect or condition produced after the acute portion of an injury or illness has passed.
Clearinghouse.
Vision

44. What OIG document should a provider reveiw for potential problem areas that will receive special scrutiny in the upcoming year?
OIG Work Plan. Each year in October.
Heat
Current Procedural Terminology. What was done into codes.
Tissue

45. Ped (latin)
Foot
Codes reported to indentify how an injury occurred and the location when it occurred. Never sequenced first.
Whole body inflammatory state. It generally refers to SIRS that is due to an infection.
Large

46. Orchi
Above - over
Straight
Study of
Testicle

47. Stomato
Mouth
Sugar - sweet
Advance Beneficiary Notification
Liver

48. Arterio
Sepis with associated acute organ dysfunction.
American Medical Association.
Artery
Under

49. Oculo
Surgical opening
Child
Urine
Eye

50. Glosso
World Health Organization. A group that deals with health care issues on a global basis.
Tongue
Translating medical documentation into codes.
Bronchus