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ICD-10-PCS utilizes the third character in the Medical and Surgical section to identify the "root
operation." The name of the root operation that describes "cutting out or off, without replacing a
portion of a body part" is
A. excision.
B. extirpation.
C. destruction.
D. removal. - A
CPT provides Level I modifiers to explain all of the following situations EXCEPT
A. when a patient sees a surgeon for follow-up care after surgery.
B. when a service or procedure is partially reduced or eliminated at the physician's discretion.
C. when one surgeon provides only postoperative services.
D. when the same laboratory test is repeated multiple times on the same day. - A
When coding neoplasms, topography means
A. site.
, B. variation from normal tissue.
C. cell structure and form.
D. extent of the spread of the disease. - A
The Cancer Committee at your hospital requests a list of all patients entered into your cancer registry in
the last year. This information would be obtained by checking the
A. tickler file.
B. disease index.
C. suspense file.
D. accession register. - D
An encoder that prompts the coder to answer a series of questions and choices based on the
documentation in the medical record is called a(n)
A. grouper.
B. automatic code assignment.
C. automated codebook.
D. logic-based encoder. - D
All children will be entered into which of the following registries at birth, and thus will continue to be
monitored by the registry in their geographic area?