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CPC Practice Exam with Correct Answers Latest 2025/2026 100% GUARANTEED PASS!!!(A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED) 1. The suffix -ectomy means - ANSWER Surgical removal 2. MRI stands for - ANSWER Magnetic Resonance Imaging 3. The correct anesthesia code for a ventral hernia repair on a 13 month old child is - ANSWER 832 4. A patient is placed under anesthesia to have an exploratory surgery done on her wrist. The surgeon utilizes a small fiber optic scope and investigates the radius, ulna, and surrounding wrist bones. What should the anesthesiologist code for? - ANSWER 1829 5. When does anesthesia time begin? - ANSWER When the anesthesiologist begins preparing the patient for the induction of anesthesia 6. A five month old is brought into the operating room for open heart surgery. The surgeon performs a repair of a small hole that was found in the lining surrounding the patient's heart. Anesthesia was provided as well as the assistance of an oxygenator pump. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 561 7. A 72 year old male with a history of severe asthma is placed under anesthesia to have a long tendon in his upper arm repaired. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 01714-P3, 99100 8. Which of the following procedures can be coded separately when performed by the anesthesiologist? - ANSWER Capnography 9. A healthy five year old male is placed under anesthesia to have a biopsy taken from his left ear drum. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 00126-P1 10. A female who is 17 weeks pregnant is rushed into the OR due to a ruptured tubal pregnancy. She has a severe hemorrhage and has an emergency laparoscopic tubal ligation. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 00851-P5, 99140 11. John was in a fight at the local bar and presents to the ER with multiple lacerations. The physician evaluates John and determines that he has a 2.5 cm gash to his left forearm and a 4cm gash on his right shoulder, both which require layered closure. He also has a simple 3cm laceration on his forehead that requires simple closure. What are the correct codes for the laceration repairs? - ANSWER 12032, 12013-59, S51.802A, S41.001A, S01.81XA 12. A patient presents to her dermatologists office with three suspicious looking lesions. The dermatologist evaluates them and determines that the 1.3cm lesion of the scalp is benign and the 1.5cm lesion of the neck is premalignant. The 2.5 cm on the dorsal surface of the patient's hand is also evaluated and is determined to be malignant. The dermatologist chooses to ablate all three lesions using electrosurgery. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 17273, 17000, 17110 13. An 18 year old female presents with a cyst of her left breast and her physician performs a puncture aspiration. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 19000 14. OPERATIVE REPORT 15. Preoperative Diagnosis: Basal Cell Carcinoma 16. Postoperative Diagnosis: Basal Cell Carcinoma 17. Location: Mid Parietal Scalp 18. Procedure: Prior to each surgical stage, the surgical site was tested for anesthesia and re-anesthetized as needed, after which it was prepped and draped in a sterile fashion. 19. The clinically-apparent tumor was carefully defined and debulked prior to the first stage, determining the extent of the surgical excision. With each stage, a thin layer of tumor-laden tissue was excised with a narrow margin of normal appearing skin, using the Mohs fresh tissue technique. A map was prepared to correspond to the area of skin from which it was excised. The tissue was prepared for the cryostat and sectioned. Each section was coded, cut and stained for microscopic examination. The entire base and margins of the excised piece of tissue were examined by the surgeon. Areas noted to be positive on - ANSWER 17311, 17315, 17312, 12002 20. A patient with a non-healing burn wound on her right cheek, and is admitted to the OR for surgery. The physician had the patient prepped with a Betadine scrub and draped in the normal sterile fashion. The cheek was anesthetized with 1% Lidocaine with 1:800,000 epinephrine (6 cc), and SeptiCare was applied. A skin graft of the epidermis and a small portion of the dermis was taken with a Goulian Weck blade with a six-thousands-of-an-inchthick shim on the blade. The 25 sq cm graft was flipped and sewn to the adjacent defect with running 5-0 Vicryl. The wound was then dressed with Xeroform and the patient was taken to recovery. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 15120 21. A child is brought into the emergency department after having her fingers on her right hand closed in a car door. The physician evaluates the patient and diagnosis her with a 3cm laceration to her second finger and a subungual hematoma to her third finger. The physician then proceeds to cleanse the fingers with an iodine scrub and injects both digits with 2 mL of 1% lidocaine with epinephrine. The wound on the second finger was then irrigated with 500 cc of NS and explored for foreign bodies or structural damage. No foreign bodies were found, tendons and vessels were intact. The wound was then re-approximated. Three 5-0 absorbable mattress sutures were used to close the subcutaneous tissue and six 6-0 nylon interrupted sutures were used to close the epidermis. The finger was then wrapped in sterile gauze and placed in an aluminum finger splint. The physician then check that the digital block performed on the third fi - ANSWER 12042-F6, 11740-F7 22. The size of an excision of a benign lesion is determined by: - ANSWER Adding together the lesion diameter and the narrowest margins necessary to adequately excise the lesion. 23. A simple, single layered laceration requires extensive cleaning due to being heavily contaminated. The code selected would come from code range . - ANSWER True 24. A skin graft where the donor skin comes from another human (often a cadaver) is known as a(n) - ANSWER Allograft 25. A patient is being treated for third degree burns to his left leg and left arm which cover a total of 18 sq cm. The burns are scrubbed clean, anesthetized, and three incisions are made with a #11 scalpel, through the tough leathery tissue that is dead, in order to expose the fatty tissue below and avoid compartment syndrome. The burns are then re-dressed with sterile gauze. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 16035, 16036 x2 26. Medial and lateral meniscus repair performed arthroscopically. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 29883 27. A patient comes into the emergency department complaining of sever wrist pain after falling onto her out stretched hands. The physician evaluates the patient taking a detailed history, a detailed exam, and medical decision making of moderate complexity. Upon examination the physician notes that there is a small portion of bone protruding through the skin. After ordering x-rays of the forearm and wrist the patient is diagnosed with an open distal radius fracture of the right arm. The physician provides an IV drip of morphine to the patient for pain and reduces the fracture. 5¬0 absorbable sutures were use to close the subcutaneous layer above the fracture and the surface was closed with 6-0 nylon interrupted sutures. Wound length was measured at 2.5 cm. It was then dressed with sterile gauze and the wrist was stabilized with a Spica fiberglass cast. The physician provided the patient with a prescription for Percocet f - ANSWER , 25605-54- RT, 12031, S52.501B 28. A Scapulopexy is found under what heading - ANSWER Repair, Revision, and/or Reconstruction 29. A patient with muscle spasms in her back was seen in her physician's office for treatment. The area over the myofascial spasm was prepped with alcohol utilizing sterile technique. After isolating it between two palpating fingertips a 25-gauge 5" needle was placed in the center of the myofascial spasms and a negative aspiration was performed. Then 4 cc of Marcaine 0.5% was injected into three points in the muscle. The patient tolerated the procedure well without any apparent difficulties or complications. The patient reported feeling full relief by the time the block had set. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 20552 30. OPERATIVE NOTE 31. PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: myelopathy secondary to very large disc herniations at C4- 32. C5 and C5-C6. 33. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: myelopathy secondary to very large disc herniations at C4-C5 and C5-C6. 34. PROCEDURE PERFORMED: 1. Anterior discectomy, C5-C6. 2. Arthrodesis, C5-C6. 3. Partial corpectomy, C5. 4. Machine bone allograft, C5-C6. 5. Placement of anterior plate with a Zephyr C6. 35. ANESTHESIA: General. 36. ESTIMATED BLOOD LOSS: 60 mL. 37. COMPLICATIONS: None. 38. INDICATIONS: This is a patient who presents with progressive weakness in the left upper extremity as well as imbalance. He has a very large disc herniation that came behind the body at C5 as well and as well as a large disc herniation at C5- C6. Risks and benefits of the surgery including bleeding, infection, neurologic deficit, nonunion, progressive spondylosis, and lack of improvement were all discussed. He understood and wished to proceed. 39. DESCRIPTION OF PR - ANSWER 22554, 63081, 20931, 22845 40. A general surgeon and a neurosurgeon are performing an osteotomy on the L4 vertebral segment. The general surgeon establishes the opening using an anterior approach. While the neurosurgeon performs the osteotomy the general surgeon performs a discectomy. After completion the general surgeon closes the patient up. - ANSWER General: 22224-62 Neurosurgeon: 22224-62 41. A patient comes into his physician's office with a prior diagnosis of a Colles type distal radius fracture. He complains that the cast he currently has on is too tight and is causing numbness in his fingers. The physician removes the cast and ensures the patient's circulation is intact. He then re-applies a short arm fiberglass cast and checks the patient's neurovascular status several times during the procedure. The patient is given instructions to follow-up with his orthopedist within seven days. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 29075 42. A patient is brought into the OR for a diagnostic arthroscopy of the shoulder. The patient has been complaining of pain since his surgery 4 months ago. The surgeon explores the shoulder and discovers a metal clamp which had been left in from the prior surgery. The surgeon removed the clamp and closed the patient up. Which is the correct code(s)? - ANSWER 29819 43. This 59 year-old female was brought to the operating room and placed on the surgical table in a supine position. Following anesthesia, the surgical site was prepped and draped in the normal sterile fashion. Attention was then directed to the right foot where, utilizing a # 15 blade, a 6 cm. linear incision was made over the 1st metatarsal head, taking care to identify and retract all vital structures. The incision was medial to and parallel to the extensor hallucis longus tendon. The incision was deepened through subcutaneous underscored, retracted medially and laterally - thus exposing the capsular structures below, which were incised in a linear longitudinal manner, approximately the length of the skin incision. The capsular structures were sharply underscored off the underlying osseous attachments, retracted medially and laterally. Utilizing an osteotome and mallet the medial eminence of the metatarsal bone was re - ANSWER 28292 44. Muscle is attached to bone by what method? - ANSWER Tendon, aponeuroses and directly to bone 45. Operative Note 46. PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Angina and coronary artery disease. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Angina and coronary artery disease. 47. PROCEDURE DETAILS: The patient was brought to the operating room and placed in the supine position upon the table. After adequate general anesthesia, the patient was prepped with Betadine soap and solution in the usual sterile manner. Elbows were protected to avoid ulnar neuropathy and phrenic nerve protectors were used to protect the phrenic nerve. All were removed at the end of the case. A midline sternal skin incision was made and carried down through the sternum which was divided with the saw. Pericardial and thymus fat pad was divided. The left internal mammary artery was harvested and spatulated for anastomosis. Heparin was given. 48. The Femoropopliteal vein was resected from the thigh, side branches secured using 4-0 silk and Hemoclips. The thigh was closed multilayer Vicryl and - ANSWER 33533, 33517, 35572