Test your basic knowledge |

Medical Coding Basics

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. -scopy
To view
Ovary
Hardening
Turning Outward

2. tetra
To view
Measure
Four
Discolored - flat lesion

3. When can a provider share PHI without specific permission from the patient?

4. Who does TRICARE cover?
Mouth
Physicians are legally responsible for their actions and their employee's actions. a.k.a Respondant Superior. (Let the master answer.)
Active - retired - survivors and their families of the Armed Forces.
Bacterial inflammatory skin disease with lesions - pustules and vesicles

5. What is Employer Liability?

6. -ectomy
Mass
Removal - Excision - Resection
1. Epidermis (Top layer) 2. Dermis (Middle layer) 3. Subcutaneous Layer
Physicians are legally responsible for their actions and their employee's actions. a.k.a Respondant Superior. (Let the master answer.)

7. When was the Health Information and Accountability Act (HIPAA) created?
Lower Back
Epinephrine and Steriods
Fibrous bands of ligaments
1996

8. Adduction
Cartilage
Abdomen
Surgical Fixation
Movement toward the midline

9. How many digits does an ICD-9 Subclassification code have?
Vertical plane dividing the body to the left and the right sides.
Muscle
Surgical Repair
5. (ex 311.56)

10. What is Carcinoma in situ?
Inflammation
No.
Turning Inward
Cancer that has localized and not spread at all.

11. What does a bullet in the CPT code book next to a code mean?
Moving forward
Neck Bones
A new procedure or service since the previous edition.
Forms the back of the skull

12. What is the name of the claim form that is standard for submitting claims?
Pain
Finger Bones
CMS-1500
Surgical Procedure Performed -Local infiltration/metatarsal/digit block/anesthesia -Pre-Op E/M services on day before surgery -Immediate Post-Op care -Normal - uncomplicated Post-Op care

13. nat/
1. Column 1/ Column 2; identified unbundled codes.2. Mutually Exclusive Edits: Codes that are unlikely to be performed on the same patient in the same day.
Osseous
Birth
Forms the front part of the skull and the forehead.

14. stomat/
Bursting forth blood
Mouth
Bone
When a person who is not sick/injured seeks health services for a specific thing (immunizations - organ donors) -When a person with a chronic condition presents for specific treatment of that condition (diabtetes) -When a circumstance influences the

15. Abduction
Movement away from the midline
In the cause of injury - poisoning - accidents or other adverse effects.
Fat cell
The fractured area of the bone collapses on itself.

16. -emia
Shoulder - collar - pelvic - arms and legs.
Lower arm bone in line with the thumb
Blood Condition
Front part of the body.

17. colp/
Vagina
Uteris
A change in the code description since the last edition.
A working diagnosis that has not yet been established.

18. Sphenoid Bones
5
In front of the temporal bones
Discharge - Flow
Moving forward

19. -stomy
Moving backward
1. Insurance Reform 2. Administrative Simplification
Opening
Epinephrine and Steriods

20. How many bones are in the spine?
Bones the palm of the hand
26
5
Cancer that has localized and not spread at all.

21. Maxilla
Visual Examination
A law passed by the Federal Government to prosecute cases of Medicaid fraud.
Separation - Breakdown
Upper Jawbone

22. What is the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (CMPL)?
A law passed by the Federal Government to prosecute cases of Medicaid fraud.
Far from the point of attachment of the trunk.
Visual Examination
Epinephrine and Steriods

23. What is Employee Liability Insurance?
Muscle
Protection against loss of money caused by failure through error or unintentional omission of the individual or service submitting the claim.
Uteris
Nose

24. Distal
Far from the point of attachment of the trunk.
The Axial Skeleton and the Appendicular Skeleton
Physicians are legally responsible for their actions and their employee's actions. a.k.a Respondant Superior. (Let the master answer.)
Interior of the nose

25. How is the Patients DOB entered on the claim form?
MM/DD/YY
Bones covering body parts (ie shoulder blades - ribs - pelvic bones)
Date of Service (DOS) -Place of Service (POS) -Type of Service (TOS) -Diagnosis -Procedure(s)
Provides medical benefits to spouses and children of veterans with total - permanent - service related disabilities- or have died.

26. Eversion
5. (ex 311.56)
Surgical Procedure Performed -Local infiltration/metatarsal/digit block/anesthesia -Pre-Op E/M services on day before surgery -Immediate Post-Op care -Normal - uncomplicated Post-Op care
Turning Outward
Ovary

27. -osis
Abnormal condition
Provides medical benefits to spouses and children of veterans with total - permanent - service related disabilities- or have died.
Measure
Hematopoietic tissue

28. oglio
Little - scanty
Interior of the nose
Interior of the nose
Gall bladder

29. What is the moon like white area at the base of the nail called?
Lunula
Middle of the body.
1. Column 1/ Column 2; identified unbundled codes.2. Mutually Exclusive Edits: Codes that are unlikely to be performed on the same patient in the same day.
Cartilage

30. How is Medicare's RBRVS calculated?
Stone
Small - rounded bones that resemble sesame seeds that are found near joints. (ie knee cap)
1. The amount of time - intensity of effort and medical skill required for the service 2.Overhead; the practice costs related to performing the service 3. Cost of Medical Malpractice insurance
3 (ex 311)

31. Frontal - Coronal
1. Sebaceous (oil) glands 2. Suddiferous (sweat) glands
MM/DD/YY
Vagina
Vertical plane dividing the body into Anterior and Posterior sections.

32. What are the insides of bones comprised of?
Hematopoietic tissue
Lower Back
Moving forward
False

33. What is secondary malignancy?
Removal - Excision - Resection
Cancer that has spread to a secondary site.
Cancer that has localized and not spread at all.
Lower Back

34. lapar/
Lower Back
Shin
Abdomen
Lower Jawbone

35. Abduction
Forms the two lower sides of the cranium
The fractured area of the bone collapses on itself.
Movement away from the midline
Above

36. gloss/
A pregnant woman who has had at least one pregnancy.
Tongue
New
Horizontal plane dividing the upper and lower parts of the body.

37. How long should Medical Records be retained?
Bone
Provides medical benefits to spouses and children of veterans with total - permanent - service related disabilities- or have died.
Upper roof of the mouth
Governed by State and Local laws; should be retained indefinitely. For deceased patients - they should be kept at least 5 years.

38. What are the 2 types of glands on the skin?
Initiative developed by CMS to promote national correct coding methods and control improper coding that leads to wrong payments of Part B health claims.
Middle of the foot bone
1. Sebaceous (oil) glands 2. Suddiferous (sweat) glands
Social and Medical History -Family History -Physical Exam Findings -Progress Notes -Lab/Rad Results -Consultation Reports -Correspondence to the patient

39. How many volumes is the ICD-9 manual divided into?
26
Movement away from the midline
1. Volume 1; Tabular List 2. Volume 2; Diseases - Alphabetic Index 3. Volume 3; Procedures - tabular list and index
A Federal law that prohibits submitting a false claim or making a false statement or representation in connection with a claim.

40. Vomer
Bone that forms the wall between the nostrils
Many
Without
Sacs of fluid located in-between the bones of the joint and tendons that hold the muscles into place.

41. Sacral
Many
Back part of the body.
Sacrum
26

42. chondro/
Physicians are legally responsible for their actions and their employee's actions. a.k.a Respondant Superior. (Let the master answer.)
Cartilage
4. (ex 311.0)
Before

43. Carpals
1. Malignant (Accelerated and severe) 2. Benign (Mild or controlled) 3. Unspecified (Not specified in the Medical Record)
Wrist bones
Cartilage
Bones at the corner of each eye that cradle the tearducts

44. Sesamoid Bones
Vulva
Turning Outward
Major skin pigment
Small - rounded bones that resemble sesame seeds that are found near joints. (ie knee cap)

45. Occipital Bone
Liver
Suture
When a person who is not sick/injured seeks health services for a specific thing (immunizations - organ donors) -When a person with a chronic condition presents for specific treatment of that condition (diabtetes) -When a circumstance influences the
Forms the back of the skull

46. Parietal Bones
Below
Forms the sides of the cranium
Moving forward
Surgical Fixation

47. -oma
Mass
Inflammation
Below
CMS

48. Cervical
Neck Bones
Death of tissue due to loss of blood supply
In front of the temporal bones
Pain

49. oophor
Smaller - lateral leg bone
Ovary
The Axial Skeleton and the Appendicular Skeleton
Intestine

50. Radius
Out - out of
To cut into
In the cause of injury - poisoning - accidents or other adverse effects.
Lower arm bone in line with the thumb