Medical Billing and Coding Test 1 Questions With Correct Answers

ICD-10-CM is mandated code set for diagnosis under the HIPPA: - Answer transaction and code sets A code in ICD-10-CM has up to how many characters? - Answer Seven An ICD-10-CM category code has how many characters? - Answer Three A subcategory code in ICD-10-CM has how many characters? - Answer Four An example of subcategory code: - Answer S81.2 The correct code set to be used is according to the CMS is based on what? - Answer Date of service The first step to begin coding is to look in the - Answer Alphabetical Index TO code correctly a disease or diagnosis you must first look in the: - Answer Alphabetical Index and then confirm in the Tabular list. The Alphabetical index is organized by what? - Answer Conditon The Alphabetical Index is also known as ICD-10-CM to : - Answer Disease and Injury Which code number is based on their anatomical site and are divided by description? - Answer Subterms Define Subterm - Answer Word of phrase that discribes a main term in the alphabetical index If you have patient presents with blindness following an accident with a bow and arrow when he was a child, what is the main term? - Answer Blindness The term acquired, congenital, and both eyes that may modify the main term in the diagnostic statement is considered : - Answer Non-essensial Modifier. If a cross reference appears after a main term, the coder must: - Answer look up the term that follows the word SEE in the index. What type of code describes two diagnoses or a diagnosis with an associated complication? - Answer Combining Code What letter is not used in ICD-10-CM coding? - Answer U A valid code must have at least___characters - Answer 3 When you see the colon punctuation it means: - Answer Incompleate term If the Tabular index has the instruction to ( code first underlying disease) it means the code selected would be listed: - Answer second