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Ace coder skills - Answers Arranging, Abstracting and assigning
steps involved in single patient encounter - Answers Diagnosis, treatment and documentation
certification - Answers voluntary achievement that documents a coder's level of proficiency by
passing a rigorous exam
documentation - Answers information, electronic or handwritten, that records the reasons a
physician saw a patient is known as
inpatient encounter - Answers is a physician interaction with patient who have been formally
admitted to a healthcare facility
drugs and biological - Answers NDC-identifies manufacturer,product, and package size of ___
recognized by FDA
arrange - Answers sequence is another words for
AAPC - Answers certified professional coder is a certification offered by
AHIMA - Answers certified coding specialist is a certification offered by
outpatient encounter - Answers a physician's interaction with patients who receive services but
have not been formally admitted to a healthcare institution is known as
coding - Answers the process of accurately assigning codes to narrative descriptions of
patients' conditions is known as
seven - Answers HIPAA passed into law in 1996, identified the ___code sets that must be used
for electronic health transactions
ambulatory surgery - Answers surgical encounters that do not require an overnight inpatient
stay in the hospital
mid-level job allows coders to - Answers expand their skills, take on more responsibility and
learn new specialties
four types of settings in which outpatient encounters may occur - Answers physician office,
ambulatory surgery, diagnostic radiology, emergency department
two items that would be included in a treatment plan - Answers medication, surgery and lifestyle
changes or therapy
HCPCS stands for - Answers Healthcare common procedure coding system
, define the difference between internal and external job openings - Answers internal with current
employer, and external with a different company
three other healthcare professionals who bill for their services using codes - Answers Dental,
Physical therapy, skilled nursing facilities
purpose of ICD-10 PCS is - Answers hospital inpatient procedure coding
how many alphanumeric characters does each ICD-10-PCS code have - Answers seven
official coding guidelines require proper sequencing of diagnosis and procedure codes. The
sequencing depends on: - Answers the codes assigned and the circumstances of the encounter
For complicated problems that may take awhile to diagnose, physicians may____ to provide
relief until the underlying cause is determined - Answers treat symptoms
which of the following things should a coder do when coding an encounter? - Answers assign
codes based on the documentation in the chart
which coding certification is NOT offered by either AAPC or AHIMA? - Answers CBCS
case production standards are based on all of the following except - Answers which encoder is
being utilized
radiology case production standards can range from 100 to 200 records per hr. The reason this
number is higher than standards for other types of records is because: - Answers the radiology
records are far less complicated than other records
it is important for coders to be proficient in what type of keyboarding? - Answers alphanumeric
keybording
which of the following type of healthcare employees might NOT use codes as part of their jobs?
- Answers schedulers
not counting modifiers, how many numbers does a CPT code habe - Answers five
what year was ICD-10-CM first implemented - Answers 1979
ICD-9-CM was developed by which organization - Answers NCHS
which organization developed CPT - Answers AMA
G9784 is an example of the code format for which HIPAA-mandated code set? - Answers
HCPCS
which organization developed National Drug codes? - Answers Department of Health and
human services