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RHIT 9 Exam | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025} A+ Graded | 100% VerifiedA discharge in which the patient was discharged from the inpatient rehabilitation facility and returned
within three calendar days (prior to midnight on the third day) is called a(n) ____ ___. - interrupted stay
The PPS replaced the Medicare Physician payment system of "customary, prevailing, and reasonable
(CPR)" charges whereby physicians were reimbursed according to their historical record of the charge
for the provision of each service - MPFS
A service provided by a physician whose opinion or advice regarding evaluation and/or management of
a specific problem is requested by another physician is referred to as a(n)... - consultation
A patient with leukemia is admitted for chemotherapy 5 weeks after experiencing an acute MI. How will
the MI be coded? - acute MI with subsequent episode of care
In ICD-9-CM, when an exploratory laparotomy is performed followed by a therapeutic procedure, the
coder lists... - therapeutic procedure only
The most widely discussed and debated unique patient identifier is the patient's.. - SSN
The Central Office of ICD-9-CM, which published Coding Clinic, is maintained by the... - AHA
A nomenclature of codes and medical terms that provides standard terminology for reporting
physicians' services for third party reimbursement is ____. - CPT
A cancer program is surveyed for approval by the... - CoC
CoC - commission on cancer
The nursing staff would most likely use what to facilitate aggregation of data for comparison at local,
regional, national, and international levels? - ABC codes
,The Level II (national) codes of the HCPCS coding system are maintained by the ___. - CMS
A patient is admitted with alcohol withdrawl suffering from delirium tremens. The patient is a chronic
alcoholic and cocaine addict. What is the principle diagnosis? - delirium tremens
A patient is admitted with pneumonia. Cultures are requested to determine the infecting organism.
Which would alert the coder to ask the physician whether or not this should be coded as a gram-
negative pneumonia? - pseudomonas
Level I (CPT) codes of the HCPCS coding system are maintained by the ___. - AMA
A Patient is seen by a surgeon who determined that an emergency procedure is necessary. Identify the
modifier that may be reported to indicate that the decision to do surgery was made on this office visit? -
57
A patient develops difficulty during surgery and the physician discontinues the procedure. Identify the
modifier that may be reported by the physician to indicate that the procedure was discontinued. - 53
A barrier to widespread use of automated code assignment is ... - poor quality of documentation
In assigning E/M codes, three key components are used. These are.. - history, examination, medical
decision making
A patient had an appendectomy. She was taken back to surgery the next day for evacuation of a
hematoma of the wound site. What modifier would be reported for the second visit? - 78
The primary goal of a hospital based cancer registry is to .. - improve patient care
A secondary data source that houses and aggregates extensive data about patients with a certain
diagnosis is a ___ ___. - disease registry
, A patient was admitted to the hospital with hemiplegia and aphasia. The hemiplegia and aphasia were
resolved before discharge and the patient was diagnosed with cerebral thrombosis. What is the correct
coding and sequencing? - cerebral thrombosis; hemiplegia; aphasia
A patient was admitted to the hospital for an obstetrical delivery of her third child. During the
admission, a sterilization procedure was performed for contraceptive purposes. the V25.2 code for
sterilization would be assigned as a ___ ___. - secondary diagnosis
A population-based cancer registry that is designed to determine rates and trends in a defined
population is a(n) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. - incidence only population based registry
Given the diagnosis "Carcinoma of axillary lymph nodes and lungs, metastatic from breast", what is the
primary cancer site? - breast
When is it appropriate to use the category V10, history of malignant neoplasm? - primary malignancy
has been eradicated and no adjunct treatment is being given at the time
In order to use the inpatient CPT consultation codes, the consulting physician must... - document his
findings in the patients medical record
The best place to ascertain the size of an excised lesion for accurate CPT codes is the ___ ___. -
operative report
What is expected to enable hospitals to collect more specific information for use in patient care,
benchmarking, quality assessment, research, public health reporting, strategic planning, and
reimbursement? - ICD-10-CM
Case definition is important for all types of registries. Age will certainly be important criterion for
accessing a case in a(n) ____ ___ registry. - birth defects
To gather statistics for surgical services provided on an outpatient bases, which type of codes are
needed? - CPT
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