CERTIFIED CODING SPECIALIST EXAM (CCS EXAM) LATEST VERSION 2024 AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS 220+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+

CERTIFIED CODING SPECIALIST EXAM (CCS EXAM) LATEST VERSION 2024 AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS 220+ QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+

A patient has a diabetic ulcer of the right foot. How should this patient's record be coded? - E11.621, L97.419

When assigning codes for diabetes and its associated conditions, the code(s) from the diabetes category must be sequenced before the codes for the associated conditions

This patient was admitted for chemotherapy due to a primary hepatocellular carcinoma of the transplanted liver. What codes are assigned? - Z51.11, T86.49, C80.2, C22.0

Z51.11 When a patient is admitted for chemotherapy, that is the principal diagnosis assigned.

T86.49 should be assigned for complication of liver transplant.

C80.2 for malignancy associated with organ transplant.

C22.0 for liver cell carcinoma.

A female patient with terminal carcinoma of the breast, metastatic to the liver, brain, and intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts, was admitted with dehydration. Patient was rehydrated with IVs and discharged, with no treatment given to the cancer. What are the codes assigned? - E86.0, C50.919, C78.7, C79.31, C78.89

When an encounter is for management of a complication associated with a neoplasm, such as dehydration, and the treatment is only for the complication, the complication is coded first followed by the appropriate code(s) for the neoplasm.

To assign modifier ______correctly, two physicians of different ________ must have worked together as co-surgeons and each surgeon dictated his/her own operative report. - -62
specialties

When more than two physicians work together to complete a complicated procedure and each physician has a specific portion of the surgery to complete, they are called.... - co-surgeons

This modifier indicates an increased service and is overused and results in an increase in payment of 20% to 30%. As such, the assignment of this modifier comes under particularly close scrutiny by third-party payers. What is this modifier? - -22

When adding multiple CPT modifiers to a code, you would list the modifiers from:
When adding multiple HCPCS modifiers, list in:
If CPT modifiers and HCPCS modifiers are both used, list: - CPT- highest to lowest
HCPS-ascending alphabetical order
both- CPT (highest to lowest) then HCPS (ascend. alpha.)

What part of the CPT manual lists a full description for all modifiers? - appendix A

When a CPT codes does not fully explain an unusual procedure,what should be added to the code? - modifier

Third-Party payers require this modifier for a mandated service. - -32
(like a rape test required by police, or phyiscal exam needed for workers comp; third-party payer will pay 100% for mandated services)

Modifier -47, anesthesia by the surgeon, is never added to what CPT code? - Anesthesia Code

How many units of service may be billed when reporting the -50 modifier (bilateral) to Medicare? - one unit