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RHIA Chap 3 Cont
PRG2017/Classification Systems and Secondary Data Sources
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A population based cancer registry that is designed to determine rates and trends in a define population is a | incidence only population based registry |
| Given the diagnosis "carcinoma of axillary lymph nodes and lungs ,metastatic from breast" what is the primary cancer site? | breast |
| According to CPT, in which of the following cases would an established E/M code be used? | Tom is seen by Dr X for a sore throat. Dr X is on call for Toms regular MD Dr Y. The last time that Tom saw Dr Y was a couple years ago. |
| In order to used the inpatient CPT consultation codes, the consulting MD must | document his finding in the patient medical record |
| According to the AMA, medical decision making is measure by all of the following except | specialty of the treating MD |
| CPT provides Level I modifiers to explain all of the following situation EXCEPT | when a patient sees a surgeon for follow up care after surgery |
| The best place to ascertain the size of an excised lesion for accurate CPT coding is the.. | operative report |
| Which of the following is expected to enable hospital s to collect more specific information for use in patient care, benchmarking, quality assessment, research, public health reporting, strategic planning, and reimbursement? | ICD-10-CM |
| Case definition is important for all types of registries. Age will certainly be an important criterion for accessing a case in... | birth defects |
| To gather statistics for surgical services provided on an outpatient basis, which of the following codes are needed? | CPT codes |
| The Caner Committee at your hospital requests a list of all patients entered into your cancer registry. this information would be obtained by checking the | accession register |
| The reference date for a cancer registry is | the date when data collection began |
| The abstract completed on pts in your hospital contain the following items: pt demo., prehospital interventions, vital signs , px and treatments prior to hospitalization, transport modality, injury severity score. The hospital uses this data for its.... | trauma registry |
| In relation to birth defects registries, active surveillance systems | use trained staff to identify cases in all hospitals, clinics, and other facilities through review of patient records, indexes, vital record and hospital logs |
| In regard to quality of coding, the degree to which the same results (same codes) are obtained by different coders or on multiple attempts by the same coder refers to | reliability |
| The healthcare cost and utilization project 9HCUP) consist of a set of databases that include data on inpatients whose care is paid for by third party payers. HCUP is an initiative of the... | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| The coding supervisor notices that the coders are routinely failing to code all possible diagnoses and procedures for a patient encounter. This indicates to the supervisor that there is a problem with... | completeness |
| When coding free skin grafts, which of the following is NOT an essential item of data needed for accurate coding? | donor site |
| In CPT, Category III codes include codes | to describe emerging technologies |
| The information collected for your registry includes patient demographic info, dx codes, function status, and histocompatibility info. This type of registry is called... | transplant registry |
| The method of calculating errors in a coding audit that allows for benchmarking with other hospitals, and permits this reviewer to track error by case type, is the | record over record method |
| The most common type of registry located in hospitals of all sizes and in every region of the country is.. | Cancer Registry |
| A radiologist is asked to review a patient's CT scan that was taken at another facility. The modifier 26 attaché dot the code indicates that the MD is billing for what component of the procedure? | professional |
| The committee that is responsible for establishing the quality improvement priorities of the cancer program and for monitoring the effectiveness of quality improvement activities is the... | Cancer committee |
| According to CPT, antepartum care includes all of the following except | monthly visits up to 36 weeks |
| The Cancer Committee at Wharton General Hospital want to compare long term survival rates for pancreatic cancer by evaluating medical vs surgical treatment of cancer. The best source of these data is... | cancer registry abstracts |
| A list of collection of clinical words or phrases with their meaning is... | clinical vocabulary |
| The main difference between concurrent and retrospective coding is... | when the coding is done |
| A EPG procedure would most likely be done to facilitate | eating |
| CMS published a final rule indicating a compliance date to implement ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. The use of these two code sets became effective on | October 1,2015 |
| Mappings between ICD-9-Cm and ICD-10-CM were developed and released by the National Center for Health Statistics to facilitate the transition from one code set to another. They are called | GEMS (general equivalency mappings) |
| The code structure for ICD-10-CM differs from the code structure of ICD-9-CM. An ICD-10-CM code consists of | three to seven characters |
| The first character for all of the codes assigned in ICD-10-CM is | an alphabet |
| ICD 10-PCS was implemented in the US to code | hospital inpatient procedures |
| ICD-10-PCS codes have a unique structure. An example of a valid code in the ICD-10-PCS | 2W3FX1Z |
| ICD-10-PCS utilizes the third character in the Medical and Surgical section to identify the "root operation" The name of the root operation that describes "cutting out or off, without replacing a portion of a body part " is | excision |
| in ICD-10-PCS to code "removal of a thumbnail" the root operation would be | extraction |
| In ICD-10-CM if no bilateral code is provided and the condition is bilateral, the guidelines direct the coder to... | assign separate codes for both he left and the right side |
| An example of a valid code in ICD-10-CM is | Z3A.34 |