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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How is surgery sections of the CPT manual divided? | Amotomic site |
| How many subsections are there in the surgery sections? | 18 |
| Explain sub section | Body systems (divisions os sections into smaller units) |
| Explain subheading | Amotic site (ex. Skin, arm, leg) |
| Catagory | Procedure being done |
| what do unlisted codes ususally end in? | 99 |
| What should always accompany the billing of unlisted code or a category 3 code? | A special report explaining the procedure |
| Explain what seperate procedure means | Minor procedures that are coded only when they are the only services preformed |
| When do you NOt bill seperate procedures? | When the same minor procedure iis preformed in conjuntion with a major procedure |
| What is included in a surgilcal package? | Operation, Local anesthia, Follow up care, related encounter prior to the procedure, immediate follow up care |
| What does anesthia include? | Local infilteration, metacarpel blockm topical anesthiea |
| Included in the definition if the surgical package is routine peroperative and postperative care including _______ complications | Usual |
| Who defined the global package? | Insurancce companies |
| What is the global period for major surgeries? | 90 days |
| What do I and D stand for> | incision and Drainage |
| The I and D codes are divided according to acne, absecess, carbuncle, boil or? | condition |
| What is included under the I and D category> | asperation |
| What does debridement mean? | Cleansing of area and removing the dead tissue. |
| Whats important to know when coding a lesion? | Maligant or beingn? and site number and size |
| how do you measure a lesion? | At the narrowest point |
| skin leasion Nodule: | Solidelevation |
| Fissure | Cracks in skin |
| tumor | Solid mass |
| Wheal | Tyoe of plauge |
| Bulla | large blister greater the .5cm |
| How is shaving of a lesion preformed?? | By using a scaple or other sharp insturments |
| Do you code for local anesthesia for excisions of lesions? | no |
| what types of lesion closures are not included in the package for the procedure? | Intermediate and complex |
| Avulsion | Speration and removal of the nail plate |
| where and what is Pilonidal Cyst? | located in sacral area (ingrown hair) |
| What do you need to know when coding a wound rrepair? | length complexity and site |
| Simple | One layer os stiching |
| Intermediate | Layers of stitch |
| Complez | several layer |
| What does ligation mean? | Binding or tieing off |
| What does epidermis mean? | Outter layer of skin |
| What does split thickness graft mean? | Epidermius and pardermus |
| What does full thickness graft mean? | consits of epidumis |
| When a graft is taken from another patients body this is called? | allographs |
| When a graft is taken from a patients own body this is called | autographs |
| What are the rules of nine? | Calculate body area of adults |
| Pressure ulcers | bed sores |
| escharotomy | cutting thro dead burned skin |
| what makes Moh's micrographic surgery helpful | can do pathology during surgery to get cancer cells out |