AAPC CPC Final Exam questions with 100% correct answers 2023/2024

Chapter 7 Test Review  Question 1_4 out of 4 points What term best describes a mass of hyperplastic scar tissue? Selected Answer: b. Keloid Correct Answer: b. Keloid Response Feedback: Rationale: A keloid scar is excess growth of connective tissue during the healing process.  Question 2_4 out of 4 points What is commonly known as a boil of the skin? Selected Answer: d. Furuncle Correct Answer: d. Furuncle Response Feedback: Rationale: Carbuncles and furuncles (boils) typically are caused by a staphylococcal infection. Several furuncles together make up a carbuncle and often involve a group of hair follicles.  Question 3 _4 out of 4 points A patient presents to the office with a suspicious lesion of the nose. The physician takes a biopsy of the lesion and pathology determines the lesion to be uncertain. What is the correct diagnosis code to report? Selected Answer: c. D48.5 Correct Answer: c. D48.5 Response Feedback: Rationale: The pathology report indicates the lesion is uncertain, which is classified in the ICD10-CM Table of Neoplasms under Neoplasm/nose, nasal /external (skin) (see also Neoplasm, nose, skin)/Uncertain Behavior (column) referring you to code D48.5.  Question 4_4 out of 4 points A patient is taken to surgery for removal of a squamous cell carcinoma of the right thigh. What is the correct diagnosis code for today