FREE Certified Professional Coder Questions and Answers

Question 1

Third-degree burns totaling 18 sq cm are being treated on a patient's left arm and leg. Three incisions are made with a #11 scalpel after the burns have been scrubbed clean and given anesthesia. After that, sterile gauze is used to redress the burns.
What CPT code(s) ought to the doctor use?

Accepted Answer

16035, 16036 x2

Answer

97602

Answer

16030, 16035, 16036 x2

Answer

97597

Question 2

A 35-year-old man who has internal hemorrhoids visits the doctor to have the hemorrhoids removed. Through an anoscope, the ligator and alligator forceps have been inserted. The doctor locates the largest hemorrhage and uses a rubber band to ligate it at the base.
Which CPT code is appropriate to use?

Accepted Answer

46221

Answer

46999

Answer

46250

Answer

46255

Question 3

To alter refractive error, a procedure is carried out in which corneal tissue from a donor is frozen, reshaped, and implanted into the recipient's anterior corneal stroma.
This describes what CPT code?

Accepted Answer

65765

Answer

65710

Answer

65770

Answer

65760

Question 4

Due to a ruptured tubal pregnancy, a pregnant woman who is 17 weeks along is hurried into the operating room. She experiences an urgent laparoscopic tubal ligation that necessitates anesthesia because she is hemorrhaging severely.
What CPT code(s) needs to be used by the doctor?

Accepted Answer

00880-P5, 99140

Answer

01965-P5

Answer

00851-P4, 99140

Answer

00880-P4

Question 5

A manometric study is carried out because there may be a gastric outlet obstruction. The doctor uses nuclear medicine to track how long it takes food to move through the patient's stomach, how long it takes for the stomach to empty completely into the small intestine, and how quickly it empties.
What CPT code(s) ought to be applied?

Accepted Answer

91020

Answer

91010, 91013

Answer

91022

Answer

91010

Question 6

Which organ system does the spleen belong to?

Accepted Answer

Hemic and Lymphatic

Answer

Nervous

Answer

Endocrine

Answer

Digestive

Question 7

How certain conditions with an underlying etiology and multiple body system manifestations as a result of the underlying etiology should be coded during procedures. The ICD-10-CM has a coding convention for these conditions that mandates the underlying condition be

Accepted Answer

sequenced first, if applicable, followed by the manifestation

Answer

sequenced last, if applicable, followed by the manifestation

Answer

ignored

Answer

none of the above

Question 8

Since his surgery 4 months ago, a patient has been complaining of pain. When the doctor checks the shoulder, he or she finds a metal clamp that was left over from a previous surgery. For an arthroscopy, the doctor sends him to a surgeon who works outside of a hospital. The doctor takes the clamp off and closes the hole.

What CPT code(s) needs to be used by the doctor?

Accepted Answer

29819

Answer

29819-78

Answer

29805, 23333

Answer

29805, 29819

Question 9

A 22-year-old female with AIDS who was experiencing dyspnea in the hospital was ventilator-dependent. With general anesthesia, the doctor takes a sample of a mass or nodule in the lung with a rigid or flexible fiberoptic endoscope. The doctor gives her a thoracoscopy to check if she has pneumonia. After seeing the test results, the doctor told the patient that he or she had Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia.

What CPT code(s) and ICD-10-CM code(s) are given?

Accepted Answer

32608-50, B20, B59

Answer

32601, B59, B20

Answer

32608, B20, B59

Answer

32601, B59

Question 10

A 38-year-old woman goes to the doctor because she has been bleeding from her uterus for 17 days. The doctor discovered a mass that was 3 x 4 cm in size. On the right vaginal mucosa, the mass was firm and irregular. A biopsy was done, and a small piece of the mass's tissue was taken out and sent to the lab.

What CPT code is needed?

Accepted Answer

57100

Answer

57105

Answer

56605

Answer

58100