AAPC CHAPTER 14 EXAM PAPER Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: A 35 year-old male has a left chronic subdural hematoma. He will undergo a left burr hole
evacuation of the hematoma. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 61154.
Question 2: A 50 year-old with left internal carotid artery stenosis presents for a left carotid
thromboendarterectomy with electroencephalogram monitoring. Electroencephalogram (EEG) leads
were placed on his head prior to surgery. Throughout the procedure, EEG patterns were symmetrical.
What CPT® code is reported for this EEG Monitoring?
Answer: 95955-26.
Question 3: A 6 week-old baby had a cerebrospinal fluid shunt placed two days ago. The shunt is not
draining the excess CSF and the baby is returning to the OR for shunt removal and replacement by the
same surgeon who placed the original shunt. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 62258-78.
Question 4: The pancreas gland has what two functions?
Answer: Produces insulin and glucagon to regulate blood glucose levels and secretes digestive enzymes.
Question 5: What is a vertebral segment?
Answer: A single complete vertebral bone with its associated process and laminae.
Question 6: A 27 year-old had an MVA accident a couple days ago and sees his primary care physician
for pain management for acute pain in his neck since the accident. Select the ICD-10-CM code(s).
Answer: G89.11, M54.2.
Question 7: A 42 year-old male with thyroid cancer is admitted to the hospital for hypersecretion of
calcitonin (functional activity) caused by the cancer. Choose the ICD-10-CM code(s) to report.
Answer: C73, E07.0.
Question 8: A 6 week-old baby had a cerebrospinal fluid shunt placed two days ago. The shunt is not
draining the excess CSF and the baby is returning to the OR for shunt removal and replacement by the
same surgeon who placed the original shunt. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 62258-78.
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, Question 9: What is a parathyroidectomy?
Answer: Correcta. Removal of glands on the posterior surface of the thyroid.
Question 10: Looking in the CPT® manual the Nervous System is divided into what subheadings?
Answer:
1. Skull
2. Meninges
3. and Brain; Spine and Spinal Cord; Extracranial Nerves
4. Peripheral Nerves
5. and Autonomic Nervous System.
Question 11: What specificity is added to Alzheimer's disease in ICD-10-CM?
Answer: The onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Question 12: What is a laminotomy?
Answer: Partial excision of one or more lamina.
Question 13: What ICD-10-CM code is reported for Addisonian crisis?
Answer: E27.2.
Question 14: A 50 year-old male is diagnosed with a tumor of the skull base just below the occipital
tonsils. The neurosurgeon performs a transpetrosal approach to the posterior cranial fossa. He then
performs an intradural removal of the tumor of the posterior cranial fossa at the base of the skull.
Dural repair is done and the area is closed with Neurolon. What CPT® code(s) is/are reported?
Answer: 61598, 61616-51.
Question 15: A patient is receiving pain management treatment for chronic cervical pain caused by a
motor vehicle accident. What ICD-10-CM code(s) and sequencing is/are reported?
Answer: G89.21, M54.2.
Question 16: How is Streptococcal A Meningitis reported in ICD-10-CM?
Answer: Streptococcal meningitis is reported first; Streptococcal, group A, as the cause of diseases
classified elsewhere is reported second.
Question 17: What CPT® code is used to report neurorrhaphy with autogenous vein graft for one
nerve?
Answer: 64911.
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: A 35 year-old male has a left chronic subdural hematoma. He will undergo a left burr hole
evacuation of the hematoma. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 61154.
Question 2: A 50 year-old with left internal carotid artery stenosis presents for a left carotid
thromboendarterectomy with electroencephalogram monitoring. Electroencephalogram (EEG) leads
were placed on his head prior to surgery. Throughout the procedure, EEG patterns were symmetrical.
What CPT® code is reported for this EEG Monitoring?
Answer: 95955-26.
Question 3: A 6 week-old baby had a cerebrospinal fluid shunt placed two days ago. The shunt is not
draining the excess CSF and the baby is returning to the OR for shunt removal and replacement by the
same surgeon who placed the original shunt. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 62258-78.
Question 4: The pancreas gland has what two functions?
Answer: Produces insulin and glucagon to regulate blood glucose levels and secretes digestive enzymes.
Question 5: What is a vertebral segment?
Answer: A single complete vertebral bone with its associated process and laminae.
Question 6: A 27 year-old had an MVA accident a couple days ago and sees his primary care physician
for pain management for acute pain in his neck since the accident. Select the ICD-10-CM code(s).
Answer: G89.11, M54.2.
Question 7: A 42 year-old male with thyroid cancer is admitted to the hospital for hypersecretion of
calcitonin (functional activity) caused by the cancer. Choose the ICD-10-CM code(s) to report.
Answer: C73, E07.0.
Question 8: A 6 week-old baby had a cerebrospinal fluid shunt placed two days ago. The shunt is not
draining the excess CSF and the baby is returning to the OR for shunt removal and replacement by the
same surgeon who placed the original shunt. What CPT® code is reported for this surgery?
Answer: 62258-78.
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, Question 9: What is a parathyroidectomy?
Answer: Correcta. Removal of glands on the posterior surface of the thyroid.
Question 10: Looking in the CPT® manual the Nervous System is divided into what subheadings?
Answer:
1. Skull
2. Meninges
3. and Brain; Spine and Spinal Cord; Extracranial Nerves
4. Peripheral Nerves
5. and Autonomic Nervous System.
Question 11: What specificity is added to Alzheimer's disease in ICD-10-CM?
Answer: The onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Question 12: What is a laminotomy?
Answer: Partial excision of one or more lamina.
Question 13: What ICD-10-CM code is reported for Addisonian crisis?
Answer: E27.2.
Question 14: A 50 year-old male is diagnosed with a tumor of the skull base just below the occipital
tonsils. The neurosurgeon performs a transpetrosal approach to the posterior cranial fossa. He then
performs an intradural removal of the tumor of the posterior cranial fossa at the base of the skull.
Dural repair is done and the area is closed with Neurolon. What CPT® code(s) is/are reported?
Answer: 61598, 61616-51.
Question 15: A patient is receiving pain management treatment for chronic cervical pain caused by a
motor vehicle accident. What ICD-10-CM code(s) and sequencing is/are reported?
Answer: G89.21, M54.2.
Question 16: How is Streptococcal A Meningitis reported in ICD-10-CM?
Answer: Streptococcal meningitis is reported first; Streptococcal, group A, as the cause of diseases
classified elsewhere is reported second.
Question 17: What CPT® code is used to report neurorrhaphy with autogenous vein graft for one
nerve?
Answer: 64911.
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