CCA PRACTICE EXAM (2025/26) - CERTIFIED CODING ASSOCIATE EXAM PREP
You would expect to find documentation regarding the assessment of an obstetric patient's lochia,
fundus, and perineum on the - (ANSWER)postpartum record.
Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) Edits review claims for codes that report - (ANSWER)procedures that
cannot or should not be provided to the same patient on the same day.
It is September 15th, and you have just received the upcoming year's ICD-10-PCS code set updates. The
next step is to ________. - (ANSWER)put in a change ticket for the hospital's chargemaster to be
updated
You are conducting an educational session on benchmarking. You tell your audience that the key to
benchmarking is to use the comparison to - (ANSWER)improve your department's processes.
A physician has come to the HIM department because he wants a new smartphone to be able to access
patient records. This way he can enter orders when he is outside of the hospital. You need to direct the
IT department to - (ANSWER)encrypt the phone so access is protected.
The APC payment system is based on what coding system(s)? - (ANSWER)CPT/HCPCS codes
The Joint Commission requires that all medical records be completed within ___________ following
patient discharge. - (ANSWER)30 days
You have been hired to work with a computer-assisted coding (CAC) initiative. The technology that you
will be working with is - (ANSWER)natural language processing.
External audits may be conducted by several organizations in the federal government as well as the
private sector, including ________. - (ANSWER)Humana Fraud Department
RAC
OIG
When writing a query to a physician regarding ambiguous details in the documentation, one must be
careful to never let the question - (ANSWER)imply an answer that will lead to a higher reimbursement
rate.
, CCA PRACTICE EXAM (2025/26) - CERTIFIED CODING ASSOCIATE EXAM PREP
If the National Coverage Determination indicates that Medicare will not pay for a specific procedure,
you may have to have the patient sign - (ANSWER)an Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN).
All health care facilities are obligated by federal legislation to provide a safe and protected workplace for
all staff and volunteers. This legislation is known as - (ANSWER)OSHA.
Employing the SOAP style of progress notes, choose the "assessment" statement from the following: -
(ANSWER)sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy.
A patient was seen in the outpatient department with a chronic cough and the record states "rule out
lung cancer." What should be coded as the patient's diagnosis? - (ANSWER)chronic cough
A final progress note is appropriate as a discharge summary for a hospitalization in which the patient -
(ANSWER)was an obstetric admission with a normal delivery and no complications.
Security devices that form barriers between routers of a public network and a private network to
protect access by unauthorized users are called - (ANSWER)firewalls.
NCCI edits were developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) to -
(ANSWER)both reinforce accurate coding and identify noncompliant coding processes.
Your facility would like to improve physician documentation in order to allow improved coding. As
coding supervisor, you have found it very effective to provide the physicians with - (ANSWER)feedback
on specific instances when improved documentation would improve coding.
NCCI stands for - (ANSWER)National Correct Coding Initiative.
While CAC systems are convenient, the codes they determine must be validated to ensure accuracy. One
method to do this would be - (ANSWER)a prospective audit.
The outpatient method for reimbursement from CMS for Medicare is - (ANSWER)Ambulatory Patient
Classification (APC).
You would expect to find documentation regarding the assessment of an obstetric patient's lochia,
fundus, and perineum on the - (ANSWER)postpartum record.
Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) Edits review claims for codes that report - (ANSWER)procedures that
cannot or should not be provided to the same patient on the same day.
It is September 15th, and you have just received the upcoming year's ICD-10-PCS code set updates. The
next step is to ________. - (ANSWER)put in a change ticket for the hospital's chargemaster to be
updated
You are conducting an educational session on benchmarking. You tell your audience that the key to
benchmarking is to use the comparison to - (ANSWER)improve your department's processes.
A physician has come to the HIM department because he wants a new smartphone to be able to access
patient records. This way he can enter orders when he is outside of the hospital. You need to direct the
IT department to - (ANSWER)encrypt the phone so access is protected.
The APC payment system is based on what coding system(s)? - (ANSWER)CPT/HCPCS codes
The Joint Commission requires that all medical records be completed within ___________ following
patient discharge. - (ANSWER)30 days
You have been hired to work with a computer-assisted coding (CAC) initiative. The technology that you
will be working with is - (ANSWER)natural language processing.
External audits may be conducted by several organizations in the federal government as well as the
private sector, including ________. - (ANSWER)Humana Fraud Department
RAC
OIG
When writing a query to a physician regarding ambiguous details in the documentation, one must be
careful to never let the question - (ANSWER)imply an answer that will lead to a higher reimbursement
rate.
, CCA PRACTICE EXAM (2025/26) - CERTIFIED CODING ASSOCIATE EXAM PREP
If the National Coverage Determination indicates that Medicare will not pay for a specific procedure,
you may have to have the patient sign - (ANSWER)an Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN).
All health care facilities are obligated by federal legislation to provide a safe and protected workplace for
all staff and volunteers. This legislation is known as - (ANSWER)OSHA.
Employing the SOAP style of progress notes, choose the "assessment" statement from the following: -
(ANSWER)sciatica unimproved with hot pack therapy.
A patient was seen in the outpatient department with a chronic cough and the record states "rule out
lung cancer." What should be coded as the patient's diagnosis? - (ANSWER)chronic cough
A final progress note is appropriate as a discharge summary for a hospitalization in which the patient -
(ANSWER)was an obstetric admission with a normal delivery and no complications.
Security devices that form barriers between routers of a public network and a private network to
protect access by unauthorized users are called - (ANSWER)firewalls.
NCCI edits were developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) to -
(ANSWER)both reinforce accurate coding and identify noncompliant coding processes.
Your facility would like to improve physician documentation in order to allow improved coding. As
coding supervisor, you have found it very effective to provide the physicians with - (ANSWER)feedback
on specific instances when improved documentation would improve coding.
NCCI stands for - (ANSWER)National Correct Coding Initiative.
While CAC systems are convenient, the codes they determine must be validated to ensure accuracy. One
method to do this would be - (ANSWER)a prospective audit.
The outpatient method for reimbursement from CMS for Medicare is - (ANSWER)Ambulatory Patient
Classification (APC).
