Exam 23: Coding for Evaluation and Management E&M, Anesthesia, and Surgery Section

Which of the following is the type of anesthesia that makes a large portion of the body numb?

P1 and P6 are examples of which of the following?

Which of the following is a type of medication used solely to relieve pain?

Which of the following is a type of medication used solely to relieve pain?

Which of the following statements best describes when time becomes a factor in determining the appropriate non-office evaluation and management code?

Which of the following is a type of medication used solely to relieve pain?

Choose the appropriate CPT code for a care-plan oversight service performed by a physician for 45 minutes on a home health patient.

The patient is a weight lifter who was training with heavy weights. While doing bicep curls, the patient experienced pain in the left forearm. A hematoma occurred, and he sought immediate medical treatment. He was diagnosed with a ruptured vein in his forearm. General anesthesia was administered in order to suture the vein. Which of the following codes is the appropriate code for reporting this service?

An examination of joints using a scope is an:

What anesthesia codes would be assigned for harvesting organ(s) from a brain-dead person?

Jonathan is a 12-year-old whose mother took him to his pediatrician for his annual exam. While examining him, his pediatrician discovered that he had an inguinal hernia and performed a problem-focused history, a problem-focused exam, and straightforward medical decision making. The pediatrician is referring Jonathan to a surgeon for the hernia repair, and Jonathan is to return to his pediatrician in 1 year. Choose the appropriate code(s) for Jonathan's visit:

Which one of the following procedures is completed without incision and is considered noninvasive in nature?

Which of the following is the type of anesthesia that makes a large portion of the body numb?

Which modifier would be assigned to an anterior packing of both nares for a nose bleed?

A perineoplasty, nonobstetrical, was performed on a 37-year-old female patient. Which range of CPT codes is appropriate for this procedure?

P1 and P6 are examples of which of the following?

Code the appropriate anesthesia service for Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy. The patient is a normal, healthy, 30-year-old male.

Dr. G was asked to provide a cardiology consultation in the emergency department for a patient who was experiencing atrial fibrillation. Dr. G determined that the patient needed to have a dual-chamber pacemaker inserted, and he scheduled the patient to have this procedure on the following morning. To correctly code the outpatient consultation visit in the ED, which of the following modifiers needs to be appended?

Mary was admitted to the hospital with congestive heart failure by her primary care physician, and cardiology was consulted on the day of admission. On the second day, the cardiologist made hospital rounds and stopped by to see Mary. An expanded problem-focused interval history was obtained, and an expanded problem-focused examination was performed. Mary is showing some improvement with IV therapy. Select the appropriate code for Mary's encounter with the cardiologist today:

Choose the appropriate CPT code for a care-plan oversight service performed by a physician for 45 minutes: