CPT: Digestive System - Chapter 21 Questions & Correct Answers | Grade A
A patient with Crohn's disease has been on drug therapy to treat the condition. She is now seen for extreme pain. An x-ray is taken, showing small bowel obstruction. The patient is taken immediately to surgery and a partial colectomy is performed with an end-to-end anastomosis. Which code(s) should be reported? : 44120 Which code(s) should be assigned for esophagoscopy with dilation of the esophagus using a balloon of 36 mm with radiological guidance for achalasia? : 43214 A female patient is admitted with hematemesis. She is alcohol-dependent and has liver cirrhosis. She has an EGD which demonstrates an oozing gastric varix as well as esophageal varices that aren't bleeding at the present time; however, because of their size and likelihood of bleeding, they were injected. The physician performs a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) procedure. Which codes should be assigned? : 43243, 37182 2 A 62-year-old patient recently diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon is admitted for resection of the sigmoid colon with anastomosis of the colon to the rectum. A liver biopsy is also performed. Which code(s) should be assigned? : 44140, 47001
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