Exam 6: Anesthesia

An otherwise-healthy five-year-old patient is identified in the pre-op area and brought back for surgical tonsillectomy. What physical-status modifier(s) and/or qualifying-circumstance modifier(s) would be used?

The units of value which are the beginning of the formula for assigning a cost/revenue value to an anesthesia service are:

Intubation is:

A condition defined as existing when delay in treatment would lead to significant increase in the threat of life or body part is called a(n):

An otherwise-healthy five-year-old patient is identified in the pre-op area and brought back for surgical tonsillectomy. What physical-status modifier(s) and/or qualifying-circumstance modifier(s) would be used?

When an anesthesiologist is supervising the concurrent anesthesia procedures of 2, 3, or 4 procedures involving qualified individuals it is denoted by using:

Modifiers that are used with all anesthesia procedure codes to rank the physical condition of the patient and the level of anesthesia complexity inherent to each ranking are:

99140 is the only qualifying-circumstances modifier that adds _____ additional units to the anesthesia CPT code to which it is appended:

Anesthesia-specific modifier AA is defined as:

The three components of the reimbursement formula of time-based general anesthesia services are:

For anesthesia services, time ends when:

A forty-six-year-old patient is waiting to be induced into anesthesia. Two CRNAs were originally scheduled to administer anesthesia to this patient, under supervision of an anesthesiologist. The CRNAs are still attending to another patient and the supervising anesthesiologist has to administer anesthesia for this patient. This would be reported using the following anesthesia-specific modifier:

CRNA service without medical direction by a physician is indicated by modifier:

A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life is denoted by using the physical-status modifier:

A moribund patient who is not expected to survive without the operation is denoted by using physical-status modifier:

Anesthesia-specific modifier AA is defined as:

Qualifying-circumstance modifiers can be used to describe all of the following scenarios except:

To identify that the service was provided by an anesthesiologist, a coder should append modifier:

Codes used to report challenging circumstances in which anesthesia may be provided are called:

All of the following are requirements of Medical Direction except: