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How is CKD due to hypertension coded? correct answers CKD in primary
Hypertensive renal disease (or hypertensive heart and renal disease) in secondary
How is more than one grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) coded? correct answers
To highest grade of CIN
Why is O06 Unspecified abortion used? correct answers Inadvertent loss of pregnancy due to
direct cause
Unavoidable termination due to uterine surgery
How are complications of anaesthesia in Chapter XV Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
coded? correct answers According to the time the anaesthesia was administered
Which has sequencing priority when birth weight and gestational age are known? correct
answers Birth weight
Name the 3 sites that a Hydatid Morgagni can be excised from in a male correct answers Testis,
spermatic cord, epididymis
When coding M49.4 Introduction of therapeutic substance into bladder for chemotherapy, what
other codes are required? correct answers Chemotherapy codes X70-73
Where would you look up a Davidov procedure (reconstruction of vagina using pelvic peritoneal
graft)? correct answers Section II - Alphabetical list of surgical eponyms
In which position is a vaginal hysterectomy sequenced when performed with a vaginal repair at
P23 other repair of prolapse of vagina correct answers Secondary position
What is sequenced in primary on a delivery episode? correct answers Delivery code R17-25
Give 3 lead terms found in OPCS-4 alphabetical index correct answers Excision, biopsy,
resection
Name the 3 volumes of ICD-10 5th edition correct answers Volume 1 - Tabular ListVolume 2-
Instruction ManualVolume 3 - Alphabetical Index
What is the filler character used in ICD-10? correct answers X
What does the instructional note 'use' mean? correct answers Use an additional code to
supplement the code selected. It is found in the Tabular List and identifies drugs, toxic agent or
external cause
,What does NOC, found in OPCS-4, stand for? correct answers Not Otherwise Classifiable
Which section of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index contains surgical suffixes? correct answers Section
IV
What does Section II of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index contain? correct answers Alphabetical Index
of Surgical Eponyms
The abbreviation NOC is only found in what chapter of OPCS-4? correct answers Chapter Y
Which body system is classified in OPCS-4 Chapter G? correct answers Upper Digestive Tract
Which OPCS-4 note instructs coder to use a subsidiary code to identify minimal access approach
at chapter heading? correct answers Use a
Define Bypass correct answers Creating a surgical route around an obstruction without removing
the obstruction
Which two categories in chapter Y classify image control? correct answers Y53 and Y78
Which section of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index lists surgical abbreviations? correct answers
Section III
How many body areas are associated with category Y98 radiology procedures? correct answers
Nine
How many body system chapters are in ICD-10? correct answers 9
Which intervention takes sequencing priority when adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy are
performed together? correct answers Tonsillectomy
Which 4th character denotes overlapping lesion in ICD-10? correct answers .8
What size is a large aneurysm? correct answers 11-20mm
Body System radiotherapy codes have a note to assign a code from which category in addition?
correct answers X65 Radiotherapy delivery
How many Classification abbreviations are used in OPCS-4? correct answers 4
How many dimensions of coding accuracy are there? correct answers Three
How many special group chapters are there in ICD-10? correct answers 9
Fifth characters are available in which ICD-10 chapters? correct answers IX, X, XIII, XIX
, How many categories in OPCS-4 Chapter B classify breast reconstruction procedures? correct
answers Three
Which type of lung biopsy is classified to OPCS-4 E59? correct answers Open biopsy of lung
Which surgical term involves the formation of a pouch? correct answers Marsupialisation
What does PCI stand for? correct answers Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Which ICD-10 category is coded on the mother's delivery episode? correct answers Z37
Which 3 OPCS-4 Chapter L categories classify type and number of stents and must never be
primary? correct answers L76, L89 and O20
When must .8 and .9 not be used? correct answers Extended categoriesHigh cost drug categories
What does the term radical imply in OPCS-4? correct answers An operation on more than one
site and often involving more than one code
How do you code failed minimal access approach converted to open? correct answers Open
procedureFailed minimal access approach (Y71.4)
List 5 skin sites excluded from chapter S OPCS-4... correct answers Eyelid, external nose,
external ear, penis, vulva
In which two OPCS-4 chapters do we find conversion to and conversion from? correct answers
Chapter G Upper Digestive Tract
Chapter W Other Bones and Joints
What is the diagnostic versus therapeutic rule? correct answers If a diagnostic procedure
proceeds to, or is performed at the same time as, a therapeutic procedure on the same site, only
the code for the therapeutic procedure is required.
What is the first bullet point in the definition of an intervention? correct answers For the
prevention, diagnosis, care or relief of disease.
How many volumes make up ICD-10? correct answers 3
When was the primary diagnosis definition mandated? correct answers 1 April 1997
Which symbols denote aetiology and manifestation? correct answers Dagger and asterisk
Which ICD-10 chapter must never be sequenced in primary? correct answers Chapter XX
External causes of morbidity and mortality
What type of chapter is chapter XXII codes for special purposes? correct answers Other
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How is CKD due to hypertension coded? correct answers CKD in primary
Hypertensive renal disease (or hypertensive heart and renal disease) in secondary
How is more than one grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) coded? correct answers
To highest grade of CIN
Why is O06 Unspecified abortion used? correct answers Inadvertent loss of pregnancy due to
direct cause
Unavoidable termination due to uterine surgery
How are complications of anaesthesia in Chapter XV Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
coded? correct answers According to the time the anaesthesia was administered
Which has sequencing priority when birth weight and gestational age are known? correct
answers Birth weight
Name the 3 sites that a Hydatid Morgagni can be excised from in a male correct answers Testis,
spermatic cord, epididymis
When coding M49.4 Introduction of therapeutic substance into bladder for chemotherapy, what
other codes are required? correct answers Chemotherapy codes X70-73
Where would you look up a Davidov procedure (reconstruction of vagina using pelvic peritoneal
graft)? correct answers Section II - Alphabetical list of surgical eponyms
In which position is a vaginal hysterectomy sequenced when performed with a vaginal repair at
P23 other repair of prolapse of vagina correct answers Secondary position
What is sequenced in primary on a delivery episode? correct answers Delivery code R17-25
Give 3 lead terms found in OPCS-4 alphabetical index correct answers Excision, biopsy,
resection
Name the 3 volumes of ICD-10 5th edition correct answers Volume 1 - Tabular ListVolume 2-
Instruction ManualVolume 3 - Alphabetical Index
What is the filler character used in ICD-10? correct answers X
What does the instructional note 'use' mean? correct answers Use an additional code to
supplement the code selected. It is found in the Tabular List and identifies drugs, toxic agent or
external cause
,What does NOC, found in OPCS-4, stand for? correct answers Not Otherwise Classifiable
Which section of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index contains surgical suffixes? correct answers Section
IV
What does Section II of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index contain? correct answers Alphabetical Index
of Surgical Eponyms
The abbreviation NOC is only found in what chapter of OPCS-4? correct answers Chapter Y
Which body system is classified in OPCS-4 Chapter G? correct answers Upper Digestive Tract
Which OPCS-4 note instructs coder to use a subsidiary code to identify minimal access approach
at chapter heading? correct answers Use a
Define Bypass correct answers Creating a surgical route around an obstruction without removing
the obstruction
Which two categories in chapter Y classify image control? correct answers Y53 and Y78
Which section of OPCS-4 Alphabetical Index lists surgical abbreviations? correct answers
Section III
How many body areas are associated with category Y98 radiology procedures? correct answers
Nine
How many body system chapters are in ICD-10? correct answers 9
Which intervention takes sequencing priority when adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy are
performed together? correct answers Tonsillectomy
Which 4th character denotes overlapping lesion in ICD-10? correct answers .8
What size is a large aneurysm? correct answers 11-20mm
Body System radiotherapy codes have a note to assign a code from which category in addition?
correct answers X65 Radiotherapy delivery
How many Classification abbreviations are used in OPCS-4? correct answers 4
How many dimensions of coding accuracy are there? correct answers Three
How many special group chapters are there in ICD-10? correct answers 9
Fifth characters are available in which ICD-10 chapters? correct answers IX, X, XIII, XIX
, How many categories in OPCS-4 Chapter B classify breast reconstruction procedures? correct
answers Three
Which type of lung biopsy is classified to OPCS-4 E59? correct answers Open biopsy of lung
Which surgical term involves the formation of a pouch? correct answers Marsupialisation
What does PCI stand for? correct answers Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Which ICD-10 category is coded on the mother's delivery episode? correct answers Z37
Which 3 OPCS-4 Chapter L categories classify type and number of stents and must never be
primary? correct answers L76, L89 and O20
When must .8 and .9 not be used? correct answers Extended categoriesHigh cost drug categories
What does the term radical imply in OPCS-4? correct answers An operation on more than one
site and often involving more than one code
How do you code failed minimal access approach converted to open? correct answers Open
procedureFailed minimal access approach (Y71.4)
List 5 skin sites excluded from chapter S OPCS-4... correct answers Eyelid, external nose,
external ear, penis, vulva
In which two OPCS-4 chapters do we find conversion to and conversion from? correct answers
Chapter G Upper Digestive Tract
Chapter W Other Bones and Joints
What is the diagnostic versus therapeutic rule? correct answers If a diagnostic procedure
proceeds to, or is performed at the same time as, a therapeutic procedure on the same site, only
the code for the therapeutic procedure is required.
What is the first bullet point in the definition of an intervention? correct answers For the
prevention, diagnosis, care or relief of disease.
How many volumes make up ICD-10? correct answers 3
When was the primary diagnosis definition mandated? correct answers 1 April 1997
Which symbols denote aetiology and manifestation? correct answers Dagger and asterisk
Which ICD-10 chapter must never be sequenced in primary? correct answers Chapter XX
External causes of morbidity and mortality
What type of chapter is chapter XXII codes for special purposes? correct answers Other
