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CBCS Certified Billing and Coding Specialist VIP Practice Exam III

CBCS — The CBCS is a nationally recognized certification issued by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA); the real exam consists of 100 questions (80 scored, 20 unscored pretest items) administered over 120 minutes, with a scaled passing score of approximately 390/500 (~78%), covering domains including coding (ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS), billing, compliance, reimbursement, and the healthcare revenue cycle.

55
Questions
120m
Time Limit
78.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 55👑 VIP

A patient is treated in the emergency department for an acute asthma exacerbation with status asthmaticus. During the same encounter, the physician also documents that the patient has type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic chronic kidney disease, stage 3. When coding this encounter, which sequencing principle applies?

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