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Chapter 1 CPMA Exam Prep Questions and Answers | 100% Pass 12.1% - Answer-# of improper Medicare Fee-For-Service claim payments, according to Federal Government. FFS - Answer-Fee-For-Service Prepayment Review - Answer-Review of claims prior to payment. Prepayment reviews result in an initial ...

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Chapter 1 CPMA Exam Prep Questions
and Answers | 100% Pass

12.1% - Answer✔✔-# of improper Medicare Fee-For-Service claim payments,

according to Federal Government.


FFS - Answer✔✔-Fee-For-Service

Prepayment Review - Answer✔✔-Review of claims prior to payment. Prepayment

reviews result in an initial determination.

Postpayment Review - Answer✔✔-Review of claims after payment. May result in

either no change to the initial determination or a revised determination, indicating an

underpayment or overpayment.

Underpayment - Answer✔✔-A payment a provider receives under the amount due for

services furnished under the Medicare statute and regulations.

Overpayment - Answer✔✔-A payment a provider receives over the amount due for

services furnished under Medicare statutes and regulations

5 Common reasons for overpayment are: - Answer✔✔-*Billing for excessive and

subsequent payment of the same service or claim.

*Duplicate submission and payment for same service or claim

*Payment for excluded or Medically unnecessary services.

*Payment for services in setting not appropriate to pt's needs or condition

*Payment to an incorrect payee.
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MACs - Answer✔✔-Medicare Administrative Contractors

MAC Responsibilities - Answer✔✔-Process claims from physicians, hospitals, and

other health care professionals, and submit payment to those providers according to

Medicare rules and regulations (including identifying under- and overpayments).

ZPICs - Answer✔✔-Zone Program Integrity Contractors

PSCs - Answer✔✔-Program Safeguard Contractor

ZPICs/PSCs - Answer✔✔-Perform investigations that are unique and tailored to

specific circumstances and occur only in situations where there is potential fraud, and

take appropriate corrective actions

SMRC - Answer✔✔-Supplemental Medical Review Contractor

SMRC Responsibilities - Answer✔✔-Conduct nationwide medical review as directed

by CMS (includes identifying underpayments and overpayments

Medicare FFS Recovery Auditors - Answer✔✔-Review claims to identify potential

underpayments and overpayments in Medicare FFS, as part of the Recovery Audit

Program

Zone 6 - Answer✔✔-All PSCs transitioned to ZPICs with the exception of Zone 6

While all contractors focus on a specific area, - Answer✔✔-Each contractor

conducting a claim review must apply all Medicare policies to the claim under review.

Additionally, once a claim is reviewed, a different contractor should not reopen it.

Therefore, it is important when conducting claim reviews, contractors review each claim

in its entirety.

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Claim Review Programs - Answer✔✔-There are 5 claim review programs

NCCI Edits - Answer✔✔-National Correct Coding Initiative Editor

NCCI Edits are performed by - Answer✔✔-Macs, ZPICs, CERT, and Medicare FFS



Complexity: Non-complex

CMS developed the NCCI to - Answer✔✔-Promote national correct coding methods

and to control improper coding that leads to inappropriate payment in Medicare Part B

claims. NCCI Edits prevent improper payments when incorrect code combinations are

reported. The NCCI Edits are updated quarterly.

The coding policies are based on the following coding conventions... - Answer✔✔-

*American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) Manual

*National and local Medicare policies and edits

*Coding guidelines developed by the National societies, standard medical and surgical

practice, and current coding practice.

PTP - Answer✔✔-Procedure-to-Procedure edits

Column One/Column Two edit pair - Answer✔✔-If a claim contains the two codes of

an edit pair, the Column One code is eligible for payment, but CMS will deny the

Column Two code

NCCI edit pairs that are both appropriate - Answer✔✔-If both codes are clinically

appropriate, you must append with an appropriate NCCI-associated modifier to be

eligible for payment.


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