CERTIFIED BILLING AND CODING SPECIALIST FINAL PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔CPT category I code - ✔✔permanent codes and consist of six sections
✔✔bulls eye symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔Moderate (conscious) Sedation
✔✔CMS-1500 - ✔✔Health Insurance Claim Form
✔✔-plasty - ✔✔Surgical repair
✔✔section - ✔✔compromised of a group of 3-digit categories representing a group of
conditions or related condtions
✔✔oophor - ✔✔ovary
✔✔Tricare - ✔✔A government health program that serves dependents of active-duty
service members, military retirees and their families, some former spouses, and
survivors of deceased military members; formerly called CHAMPUS.
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔1965 , a federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of
age and older
✔✔ante- - ✔✔Before
✔✔filled in circle symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔new code
✔✔cholecyst - ✔✔gallbladder
✔✔-megaly - ✔✔enlargement
✔✔-meter - ✔✔measure
✔✔chondro - ✔✔cartilage
✔✔subcategories - ✔✔4 digit codes (3 digits a decimal point and the 4th digit) are more
specific than the category (3 digit) code in terms of cause, site, or manifestation of the
condition
✔✔10021-69990 - ✔✔Surgery
✔✔ICD-9-CM Appendix A - ✔✔Morphology of Neoplasms
, ✔✔V Codes - ✔✔are used to describe circumstances or encounters with physician or
healthcare provider when no current illness or injury exists.
✔✔anti- - ✔✔against
✔✔E Codes - ✔✔supplementary classification of external causes of injury and
poisoning and other adverse effects
✔✔+ symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔Add-on Code
✔✔-centesis - ✔✔surgical puncture
✔✔-ectomy - ✔✔removal, resection, excision
✔✔CPT Appendix E - ✔✔Summary of CPT codes exempt from modifier 51
✔✔-rrhagia - ✔✔bursting forth of blood
✔✔pre- - ✔✔before, in front of
✔✔pseudo- - ✔✔false
✔✔colp - ✔✔vagina
✔✔pan- - ✔✔all
✔✔para- - ✔✔beside
✔✔-oma - ✔✔tumor, mass
✔✔-osis - ✔✔abnormal condition
✔✔CHAMPVA - ✔✔Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran
Affairs; health benefits program that provides coverage to the spouse or widow(er) of a
U.S. military veteran.
✔✔Medicaid - ✔✔health insurance program in which the federal government makes
payments to states under the FMAP
✔✔Workers' Compensation Plans - ✔✔Federal- or State- designated coverage for
work-related illnesses and injuries
✔✔cephal - ✔✔head
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔CPT category I code - ✔✔permanent codes and consist of six sections
✔✔bulls eye symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔Moderate (conscious) Sedation
✔✔CMS-1500 - ✔✔Health Insurance Claim Form
✔✔-plasty - ✔✔Surgical repair
✔✔section - ✔✔compromised of a group of 3-digit categories representing a group of
conditions or related condtions
✔✔oophor - ✔✔ovary
✔✔Tricare - ✔✔A government health program that serves dependents of active-duty
service members, military retirees and their families, some former spouses, and
survivors of deceased military members; formerly called CHAMPUS.
✔✔Medicare - ✔✔1965 , a federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of
age and older
✔✔ante- - ✔✔Before
✔✔filled in circle symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔new code
✔✔cholecyst - ✔✔gallbladder
✔✔-megaly - ✔✔enlargement
✔✔-meter - ✔✔measure
✔✔chondro - ✔✔cartilage
✔✔subcategories - ✔✔4 digit codes (3 digits a decimal point and the 4th digit) are more
specific than the category (3 digit) code in terms of cause, site, or manifestation of the
condition
✔✔10021-69990 - ✔✔Surgery
✔✔ICD-9-CM Appendix A - ✔✔Morphology of Neoplasms
, ✔✔V Codes - ✔✔are used to describe circumstances or encounters with physician or
healthcare provider when no current illness or injury exists.
✔✔anti- - ✔✔against
✔✔E Codes - ✔✔supplementary classification of external causes of injury and
poisoning and other adverse effects
✔✔+ symbol in the CPT manual means - ✔✔Add-on Code
✔✔-centesis - ✔✔surgical puncture
✔✔-ectomy - ✔✔removal, resection, excision
✔✔CPT Appendix E - ✔✔Summary of CPT codes exempt from modifier 51
✔✔-rrhagia - ✔✔bursting forth of blood
✔✔pre- - ✔✔before, in front of
✔✔pseudo- - ✔✔false
✔✔colp - ✔✔vagina
✔✔pan- - ✔✔all
✔✔para- - ✔✔beside
✔✔-oma - ✔✔tumor, mass
✔✔-osis - ✔✔abnormal condition
✔✔CHAMPVA - ✔✔Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran
Affairs; health benefits program that provides coverage to the spouse or widow(er) of a
U.S. military veteran.
✔✔Medicaid - ✔✔health insurance program in which the federal government makes
payments to states under the FMAP
✔✔Workers' Compensation Plans - ✔✔Federal- or State- designated coverage for
work-related illnesses and injuries
✔✔cephal - ✔✔head
