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Medical Coding Basics

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1. What are bones connected together with?
Separation - Breakdown
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.
Fibrous bands of ligaments
Mouth

2. Abduction
Bursting forth blood
Milk
Movement away from the midline
In front of the temporal bones

3. How is Usual - Customary and Reasonable pricing calculated?

4. Short Bones
Small with irregular shapes (ie wrist and ankle)
Before
Movement toward the midline
Free moving joints that are surrounded by joint capsules.

5. per
Through
Vagina
Slow
Disease Condition

6. episi/
Forms the sides of the cranium
Vulva
Karatin
Date of Service (DOS) -Place of Service (POS) -Type of Service (TOS) -Diagnosis -Procedure(s)

7. What is Employer Liability?

8. Sphenoid Bones
Before
In front of the temporal bones
Lower Jawbone
Separation - Breakdown

9. Anterior/Ventral
Front part of the body.
Forms the back of the skull
Middle of the foot bone
1. Insurance Reform 2. Administrative Simplification

10. -rrhea
Many
Discharge - Flow
Before - in front of
Middle of the body.

11. What are bursae?
Sacs of fluid located in-between the bones of the joint and tendons that hold the muscles into place.
1. Volume 1; Tabular List 2. Volume 2; Diseases - Alphabetic Index 3. Volume 3; Procedures - tabular list and index
Provides medical benefits to spouses and children of veterans with total - permanent - service related disabilities- or have died.
In the cause of injury - poisoning - accidents or other adverse effects.

12. What are bones made of?
Osseous
Hardening
Small with irregular shapes (ie wrist and ankle)
Many

13. Transverse/Cross Sectional
Mouth
Horizontal plane dividing the upper and lower parts of the body.
Milk
Abnormal condition

14. Eversion
Forms the back of the skull
Lower arm bone in line with the thumb
5. (ex 311.56)
Turning Outward

15. supra
A break at the distal end of the bone - usually when someone tries to break their fall.
In the cause of injury - poisoning - accidents or other adverse effects.
Bursting forth blood
Above

16. What hormones do the adrenal glands secrete?
Out - out of
Upper roof of the mouth
Mass
Epinephrine and Steriods

17. -centisis
Osseous
Surgical Puncture
To cut into
1. For treatment (discussing the case with another professional)2.Payment (When providers submit claims on the patient's behalf).3. Operations: Staff training and Quality Improvement.

18. Frontal - Coronal
A law passed by the Federal Government to prosecute cases of Medicaid fraud.
Far from the point of attachment of the trunk.
Vertical plane dividing the body into Anterior and Posterior sections.
Opening

19. Lumbar
Major skin pigment
Lower Back
Fat cell
Smooth - slightly elevated swollen area that is redder or paler than the surrounding skin

20. What is CHAMPVA
Wrist bones
Lower arm bone in line with the thumb
Provides medical benefits to spouses and children of veterans with total - permanent - service related disabilities- or have died.
Forms the two lower sides of the cranium

21. -osis
An insurance company that bids for a contract with CMS to handle the Medicare program in a specific area.
Shoulder - collar - pelvic - arms and legs.
Abnormal condition
Visual Examination

22. Alopecia
Absence of hair
CMS-1500
Cartilage
Hardening

23. Protraction
Bacterial inflammatory skin disease with lesions - pustules and vesicles
Moving forward
Bones covering body parts (ie shoulder blades - ribs - pelvic bones)
Death of tissue due to loss of blood supply

24. What are the key components of E/M?
Small with irregular shapes (ie wrist and ankle)
Below - deficient
Four
1. History -Chief complaint -History of Present illness -Review of Symptoms -Past - Family and Social History 2. Physical Exam 3.Medical Decision Making Complexity

25. Occipital Bone
Hematopoietic tissue
Below
3 (ex 311)
Forms the back of the skull

26. What is the Axial Skeleton comprised of?
Finger Bones
To cut into
Skull - Ribcage and Spine.
Suture

27. neo
New
Upper Arm bone
Coccyx (Tailbone)
Suture

28. What is a compression fracture?
The fractured area of the bone collapses on itself.
Nose
Governed by State and Local laws; should be retained indefinitely. For deceased patients - they should be kept at least 5 years.
Fallopian tubes

29. inter
Enlargement
Surgical Fixation
Between
Front part of the body.

30. -megaly
A change in the code description since the last edition.
Enlargement
Discolored - flat lesion
Against

31. sub
A new procedure or service since the previous edition.
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
Under
Protection against loss of money caused by failure through error or unintentional omission of the individual or service submitting the claim.

32. When billing an insurance company - what information must be included?
Surgical Puncture
Date of Service (DOS) -Place of Service (POS) -Type of Service (TOS) -Diagnosis -Procedure(s)
Vertical plane dividing the body into Anterior and Posterior sections.
A pregnant woman who has had at least one pregnancy.

33. What does a bullet in the CPT code book next to a code mean?
A new procedure or service since the previous edition.
Sacrum
Mass
CMS-1500

34. nat/
Measure
1. The provider's usual charge for the service 2. The average charge of all the other providers in the same geographical area 3. The actual charge submitted on the claim The lowest amount is used as basis for the payment.
Upper Arm bone
Birth

35. -stomy
Date of Service (DOS) -Place of Service (POS) -Type of Service (TOS) -Diagnosis -Procedure(s)
Mouth
Opening
False

36. What are the 2 types of sweat glands?
Turning the palm or foot upward
1. For treatment (discussing the case with another professional)2.Payment (When providers submit claims on the patient's behalf).3. Operations: Staff training and Quality Improvement.
1. Eccrine (secrete odor) 2. Apocrine (odorless sweat)
Forms the back of the skull

37. Malleolus
Cartilage
Removal - Excision - Resection
Hematopoietic tissue
Ankle

38. How are bones categorized?
Bacterial inflammatory skin disease with lesions - pustules and vesicles
The Axial Skeleton and the Appendicular Skeleton
Mouth
Reimbursement is sent directly from payer to the provider.

39. When was the Health Information and Accountability Act (HIPAA) created?
Without
Cancer that has localized and not spread at all.
Osseous
1996

40. Who does TRICARE cover?
Moving forward
Under
Without
Active - retired - survivors and their families of the Armed Forces.

41. Humerus
Lung
Birth
Liver
Upper Arm bone

42. -oma
Governed by State and Local laws; should be retained indefinitely. For deceased patients - they should be kept at least 5 years.
Mass
All
Cheek Bone

43. How many digits does an ICD-9 Subclassification code have?
1. The provider's usual charge for the service 2. The average charge of all the other providers in the same geographical area 3. The actual charge submitted on the claim The lowest amount is used as basis for the payment.
Karatin
5. (ex 311.56)
New

44. oste/
Uteris
Bone
Suture
Absence of hair

45. oglio
The original cancer site. Malignant tumores are considered primary unless documented as secondary or metastatic.
Nose
Moving forward
Little - scanty

46. Metacarpals
Bones the palm of the hand
Above
Between
Below - deficient

47. Sacral
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
Discolored - flat lesion
Upper Jawbone
Sacrum

48. ante
Before
Fat cell
The bone is broken and pierces an organ.
Under

49. pneum/
Without
Opening
The Axial Skeleton and the Appendicular Skeleton
Lung

50. oglio
Heart
Little - scanty
Between
Head