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AAPC C hapter 14 Review Exam Answers New Version 2 023-2024/ AAPC CPC Exam Questions an d Answers pdf Latest Version All Questions Answers and Rationale Mrs. Marsden slipped on the ice last winter and fractured several lumbar vertebrae. Since then she has required pain managem ent therapy at her local hospital with an anesthesiologist. He performs a therapeutic injection of 5% Marcaine mixed with the steroid Decadron (16mg) into the nerve located in the facet joints at levels L3 -L4 and L4-L5 on both sides at each level. What CPT ® code(s) are reported for this procedure? -------- Correct Answer ------- 64493 -50, 64494 -50 A 47 year -old male presents with chronic back pain and lower left leg radiculitis. A laminectomy is performed on the inferior end of L5. The microscope is used t o perform microdissection. There was a large extradural cystic structure on the right side underneath the nerve root as well as the left. The entire intraspinal lesion was evacuated. What CPT® code(s) is/are reported for this procedure? -------- Correct Answer ------- 63267, 69990 What is the term for uncontrolled muscle movements? -------- Correct Answer ------- Dyskinesia What are the four lobes of the brain? -------- Correct Answer ------- Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital What ICD -10-CM code is used for intractable grand mal seizures without status epilepticus? -------- Correct Answer ------- G40.419 A patient has a right thyroid lobectomy for a thyroid follicular lesion. An incision is made 2 cm above the sternal notch and carried through the p latysma. The right thyroid was dissected free from the surrounding tissues. The isthmus was divided from the left thyroid lobe. The left thyroid lobe was explored revealing a single nodule. The right thyroid lobe was completely removed from the trachea and surrounding tissues. It was marked and sent off the table as a specimen. What CPT® code is reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 60220 A provider is performing an experimental cervical sympathectomy on a patient with Raynaud's Syndrome. What CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 64802, I73.00 A 50 year -old male is diagnosed with a tumor of the skull base just below the occipital tonsils. The neurosurgeon performs a transpetrosal approach to the posterior cranial fossa . He then performs an intradural removal of the tumor of the posterior cranial fossa at the base of the skull. Dural repair is done and the area is closed with Neurolon. What CPT® code(s) is/are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 61598, 61616 -51 A patient is having a decompression of the nerve root involving two segments of the lumbar spine via transpedicular approach. What CPT® code(s) is/are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 63056, 63057 A patient with a displaced cervical disc undergoes a cervical laminotomy with a partial facetectomy and excision of the herniated disc at cervical interspace C3 -C4. What CPT® and ICD -10-CM codes are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 63020, M50.21 What diagnosis code is used for spinal meningitis? -------- Correct Answer ------- G03.9 A patient has a total thyroidectomy to remove thyroid cancer. Removal of all the lymph nodes along with the spinal accessory nerve, jugular vein and sternocleidomastoid muscles are performed to remove a malignant lymp hatic chain. What CPT® and ICD -
10-CM codes are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 60254, C73 A patient with chronic lumbago is seen by the provider to have an epidural injection of a non-neurolytic substance at the sacral level. What CPT® code is reported for this procedure? -------- Correct Answer ------- 62322 A patient with a malignant neoplas m of the spinal meninges is receiving a programmable pump implantation for chemotherapy. The patient is placed in the prone position where the provider made a midline incision overlying the area of the spinal cord. The reservoir was placed in the subcutane ous tissues and attached to the previously placed catheter. Layered sutures were used to close the incision. The patient tolerated the procedure well and was released in good condition. What CPT® and ICD -
10-CM codes are reported for this procedure? ------- - Correct Answer ------- A patient with McCune -Albright syndrome has a fibrous tissue neoplasm of the frontal bone (skull of cranium) extending into the orbit on the left. The surgeon excises the fibrous tissue neoplasm off the bone and down through the dura mater. Prophylactic decompression of the optic nerve was also performed. What CPT® and ICD -10-CM codes are reported? -------- Correct Answer ------- 63030 -50, 69990 What does it mean when a patient has a thymectomy performed by a sternal split approach? -------- Correct Answer ------- Excision of the thymus by cutting into the chest What is a vertebral segment? -------- Correct Answer ------- A single complete v ertebral bone with its associated process and laminae A 70 year -old patient has toxic myelitis due to inhaling vapors of carbon tetrachloride from using a fire extinguisher. The appropriate codes to report are -------- Correct Answer ------- T53.0X1A, G92
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