CPT Test 1 | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated 2024/2025
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What does CPT stand for - Current Procedural Terminology
What is CPT used for? - Outpatient services
Physician offices
HCPCS - stands for? - Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
What is HCPCS? - standardized coding system developed by the federal government that is used
primarily to identify products, supplies, and services not include in CPT.
Category I CPT codes include: - -Evaluation and Management
-Anesthesia
-Surgery
-Radiology
-pathology and Laboratory
-Medicine
Who publishes CPT? - AMA (American Medical Association)
What are the three types of supplementary codes? - Category II codes
Category III codes
Modifiers
What are Category II codes? - provides supplementary tracking codes that are designed for use in
performance assessment and quality improvement activities.
-composed of 4 numbers and an alphabetic character
-example: 1000F
, What is a CPT modifier? - Modifiers is a two digit numeric or alphanumeric character designed to give
Medicare and other third-party payers additional information needed to process a claim. A physician or
facility uses a modifier to flag, a service provided to a patient that has been altered by some special
circumstances but for which the basic code description itself has not changed.
When are modifiers used? - to indicate that a particular event modified the service or procedure, but
with no change in its. basic definition.
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What does HIPAA do? - The HIPAA legislation of 1996 provides, in part, more widespread access to
health insurance and the protection and privacy of health information, and legal requirements for
appropriate sharing of client's information.
What organization is responsible for updating CPT codes? - AMA
What does a semicolon signify in CPT? - the main entry applies to, and is part of all intended entries that
follow their codes.
What does the # symbol mean? - Resequenced code
What does the + symbol mean? - This means this is an add on code and cannot be used alone.
Which symbol indicates that a procedure code is new in CPT? - CPT uses "bullets" before a code to
identify that it is a new code.
The surgeon documents surgical removal of metatarsophalangeal joint. What is the correct code? -
Amputation, toe - 28820
Which category of CPT codes is reserved for emerging technology? - Category III
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