CPT Practice Exam

This section appears in the front of the CPT Manual and must be thoroughly understood. There is the most room for error when coding in this section. Since all specialties bill these services and these codes constitute 65% of the total Medicare part B payments to physicians, it is extremely important to understand this section.

What is the major part of CPT4 2009 manual?

This represent services and procedures widely used by many health care professionals in clinical practice, approved by the FDA.

This contains the full description of the procedure for the code.

Appended to regular CPT codes in order to show circumstances which cause deviation form the exact code description of a regular CPT code

Consists of a summary of additions, deletions and revisions in the CPT manual of 2009 over that of CPT manual of 2008.

Health care providers are ___ based on the codes submitted on a claim form for procedures and services rendered.

Evaluation and management, Anesthesia, Surgery, Radiology, Pathology and Laboratory, Medicine, Category I, II.

Where is specific coding information about each section located?

What CPT stands for?

What is the universal health insurance form for submission of outpatient services?

These are temporary codes for emerging technology, services and procedures.

These are supplemental codes used for performance measurements. Data collection about the quality of care.

Symbol for surgical procedure only.

What punctuation mark means revised code?

Created by the AMA and is updated annually in November and effective on Jan 1st. Is used to report services and procedures by physicians.

Category 1 CPT codes have ___ digits

What are the four classes of main term entries in the CPT index? Select all possible answers.

What year was CPT first developed and published?

A change in code done by the insurance company that receives a claim resulting in a lesser reimbursement. The change will usually be the code closest to the one submitted on the claim, because the code does not match in some way to the specifications of the insurance company.