Exam 30: ICD-10-Pcs Medical and Surgical Section

A qualifier is character 7 and in many cases, is:

What is the root operation for total thyroidectomy?

A patient had an acute gastric ulcer with perforation and hemorrhage. A laparotomy was done, and the gastric ulcer was sutured. What is the correct code?

Body parts are identified in different ways. What is another way to refer to a finger?

Which of these codes indicates a single or multiple qualifier was used?

A patient suffered a severe head injury in an auto accident. He was rushed to the hospital and taken to surgery, where a craniotomy was done to remove a subdural hematoma from the brain. What is the correct code?

Which code identifies a colonoscopy with biopsy of the descending colon that has a diagnostic qualifier?

In the Medical and Surgical section, the second character position is body system, which uses numbers 0-9 and letters B-Y. Which letters are not used in the body system section?

The physician performed an ORIF of a comminuted fracture of the proximal end of the left ulnar. This is coded as:

All of these are approaches except:

These devices are all simple or mechanical appliances except:

What is the root operation for a partial nephrectomy?

What two approaches are used when a CABG is done and greater saphenous vein grafts are harvested endoscopically from the left leg wherein the left internal mammary is anastomosed to one coronary artery and a vein is grafted to another artery? (These are two operations.)

An example of fragmentation would be:

The PCS description of a sweat gland is:

Refer to the ICD-10-PCS Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, Medical and Surgical Section Guidelines (Section 0), subhead Fusion Procedures of the Spine. Which paragraphs discuss fusion of vertebral joints?

The definition of Humeral Head includes all except the:

The external approach would be appropriate for:

The following are body systems for the Medical/Surgical section except:

The main difference between character position 2 (body system) and character position 4 (body part) is: