Evaluation and Management and Anesthesia Coding UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

Evaluation and Management and Anesthesia
Coding UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. An inventory of body systems is called the - CORRECT ANSWER - review of systems


2. Which modifier would be assigned to indicate that the patient has severe systemic disease
that's life-threatening? - CORRECT ANSWER - P4


3. When more than one surgery is performed during one anesthesia administration, the coder
should - CORRECT ANSWER - assign modifier -QS to the second surgery code



4. Modifier -P1 indicates a/an - CORRECT ANSWER - normal healthy patient



5. Information located in the medical record is called - CORRECT ANSWER - medical
documentation


6. A patient is in critical care for 125 minutes. What codes are assigned? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 99291, 99292X2



7. Code range 99218-99220 denotes - CORRECT ANSWER - initial observation care



8. A patient who has been admitted to a hospital is a/an - CORRECT ANSWER -
established patient


9. Modifiers that indicate a patient's status at the time of anesthesia administration are called -
CORRECT ANSWER - physical status modifiers