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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. What is PHI?
Above - over
Tumor
Abdomen
Personal Health Information.

2. What OIG document should a provider reveiw for potential problem areas that will receive special scrutiny in the upcoming year?
Single - one
Translating medical documentation into codes.
OIG Work Plan. Each year in October.
Kidney

3. Post-
Around - covering
Through - between - across - apart
Skull
After

4. What is the function of the pancreas?
Sugar - sweet
Supplies digestive enzymes.
Malleus.
Seizure - convulse

5. -algia --algesia
Nose
Rupture
A condition that develops slowly and lasts a long period of time.
Pain

6. Oculo
Within
Production - origin
Look into - see
Eye

7. Open Fracture
Eye
Above - over
A fracture bone that pierces the skin.
Around

8. Hydro
Bad - poor - disordered
Water
Surgical removal
Clot

9. -oma
Blood vessel
Breast
Production - origin
Tumor

10. Cephalo
Liver
Head
Foot
No - not

11. Chondro
Cartilage
Shape - mold - repair - operative revision - plastic repair
Colon
Testicle

12. Inter-
Fear - dread
Through - between - across - apart
Between
Tissue

13. Sebaceous glands are part of which anatomical system?
Water
Integumentary.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Basic guidelines for private prctice and rules.
Sleep

14. Ex-
Paralysis
Uterus
Out
Fever

15. What is medical billing?
Measure
A systemic disease that is associated with microorganisms or toxins in the blood. These toxins are caused by bacteria - viruses - fungi - or other organisms.
Translating medical documentation into codes.
Supplies digestive enzymes.

16. Ante-
Before
Urinary bladder
Death
Muscle

17. Pneum
Air - lungs
Month
Chest
In - inside

18. Severe Sepsis
Against
Sepis with associated acute organ dysfunction.
Foot
In - inside

19. Myocardium is thickest arount which chamber of the heart?
Left ventricle.
Joint
Leg.
Shape - mold - repair - operative revision - plastic repair

20. Cardio
Tabular List: Diagonosis codes organized in order by code.
Through - between - across - apart
Against
Heart

21. Narco
Sleep
To repair a defect - suture
Against
A fractured bone that does not pierce the skin.

22. Cranio
Skull
Tongue
Sensation
Uterus

23. Pyo
Nervous.
Within inner - on the inside
Through - between - across - apart
Pus

24. Metro
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.
Uterus
Fraud.
Breathing

25. -graphy
Tissue
Against
Practice - process
Study of

26. What is CPC?
Against
Current Procedural Terminology. What was done into codes.
Under
Outer - or on the outside

27. Path
Two
Disease
Paralysis
Month

28. Dis-
Apart
Across
Oviduct
Skull

29. Arthro
Urine will not be able to flow from the kidney to the bladder.
Joint
Uterus
Vision

30. -emesis
Vomiting
An inactive - residual effect or condition produced after the acute portion of an injury or illness has passed.
Heat - temperature
Kill

31. What is Part C?

32. -mania
Insanity
Alphabetic Index and Tabular Index of Procedures: Procedures performed in the inpatient setting.
A condition with a rapid onset with a short course.
Heart

33. What is WHO?
World Health Organization. A group that deals with health care issues on a global basis.
Integumentary.
Current Procedural Terminology. What was done into codes.
Surgical opening

34. Hemiplegia is a disorder caused by a defect in which anatomical system?
Sleep
Death
Nervous.
Liver

35. What is AMA?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Law passed by Congress to improve the portability and continuity of healthcare coverage.
American Medical Association.
Practice - process
Before

36. Ambi-
Both
Codes reported to indentify how an injury occurred and the location when it occurred. Never sequenced first.
Leg.
Slow

37. Second Degree Burn
One
Kidney
A partial-thickness burn involving the epidermis and the dermis.
Practice - process

38. Hyster
Left ventricle.
Mucous membrane
Uterus
Above - over

39. -osis
Record
Tumor
Condition of
Pain

40. Micro
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Basic guidelines for private prctice and rules.
Bronchus
Small
Middle

41. Cysto
Two
Bone
Fat
Urinary bladder

42. What is ICD-9-CM?
Urine will not be able to flow from the kidney to the bladder.
International Classification of Disease - 9th Clinical Modification. Why was done in codes.
Rectum
Apart

43. Chronic
Urine
Vomiting
Colon
A condition that develops slowly and lasts a long period of time.

44. What are NCD's interpreted at the MAC level considered?
Stone - calculus
Practice - process
LCD
A condition that develops slowly and lasts a long period of time.

45. Fibro
Kidney
Connective tissue
Shape - mold - repair - operative revision - plastic repair
Lens.

46. Third Degree Burn
Bronchus
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.
Surgical removal
A full-thickness burns that involve the epidermis - dermis - and varying levels of the subcutaneous and underlying structures.

47. En-
Study of
Vein
Fever
In - inside

48. Ab- -abs-
When a service is not expected to be covered by Medicare.
From - away
Alphabetic Index and Tabular Index of Procedures: Procedures performed in the inpatient setting.
Spinal cord - bone marrow

49. -esthesia
Index to Diseases: Diagnosis codes organized in an alphabetic index.
Before
Tooth
Sensation

50. -uria - -uric
Air - lungs
Testicle
Condition of - presence in urine
A fractured bone that does not pierce the skin.