OST-247 - Procedure Coding - Chapters 9-11 Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions

A 1.3-cm laceration repair, vestibule of mouth - 40830 A biopsy of the lip is a type of cheiloplasty. - False A complete bilateral cervical lymphadenectomy would be reported with the addition of modifier 50. - True A gastrectomy is the process of making a surgical incision into the stomach. - False A physician records the following: A diagnostic biliary endoscope was placed to view and remove a calculi found in the biliary tract. Two codes would be used to code this procedure appropriately: one code for the diagnostic biliary endoscopy and one code for the endoscopic removal of the calculi. - False A rib spreader is a device that is used to remove a rib. - False A(n) _____ can be rigid or flexible and is used to view the internal structures. - endoscope A(n) _____ endoscopy would not be reported in addition to a surgical endoscopy. - diagnostic A(n) _____, or maneuver by hand, is used to treat or perform therapy. - manipulation After a repair of a paraesophageal hiatal hernia, the herniated stomach is returned to the correct position, and the diaphragm is sutured to prevent reherniation. - True An endoscopic procedure that combines a retrograde cholangiography and transhepatic cholangiography is abbreviated as _____. - ERCPAppendectomy - 44950 Axillary excision of cystic hygroma with deep neurovascular dissection - 38555 Biopsy of intestine by capsule, three specimens - 44100 Biopsy of the lip - 40490 Bone marrow transplantation from autologous marrow - 38241