ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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Modifier -58, staged or related procedure or service by the same physician during the
postoperative period, is used to indicate:
that a patient is taken back to the operating room for surgical treatment of a complication
resulting from a previous surgery.
that services provided usually bundled into one payment were provided as separate services
a service was repeated
that a subsequent surgery was planned at the time of the first surgery - CORRECT
ANSWER - that a subsequent surgery was planned at the time of the first surgery
Modifier -57, decision for surgery, is used on what type of service?
E/M
Surgery
Anesthesia
All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - E/M
Daily hospital management of epidural, continuous drug administration.
CPT Code: ________. - CORRECT ANSWER - 01996
Anesthesia code for a tympanostomy of the left ear performed on an 11-month-old female.
CPT Codes: ________, ________. - CORRECT ANSWER - 00126, 99100
, Assign a CPT anesthesia code and applicable modifiers for anesthesia services for an 81-year-old
patient with mild systemic disease who receives anesthesia for revision of total hip arthroplasty. -
CORRECT ANSWER - 01215-P2, 99100
In the Anesthesia section of the CPT manual, the codes are usually divided first by which of the
following?
specific procedure
anatomic site
degree of difficulty
amount of time - CORRECT ANSWER - anatomic site
What is the type of sedation that allows a procedure to be performed without pain to the patient,
but the patient is not completely asleep?
block
conscious or moderate
general
regional - CORRECT ANSWER - conscious or moderate
Modifier -79, unrelated procedure or service by the same physician during the postoperative
period, is used on what type of service?
E/M
Surgery
Anesthesia
All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER - Surgery
Assign a CPT anesthesia code and applicable modifiers for anesthesia services for a 9- month-
old normal child who received anesthesia for hernia repair in the lower abdomen.
CPT Code: ________. - CORRECT ANSWER - 00834-P1