Question

Instructions: Using the Current Procedural Terminology coding manual, locate evaluation and management codes, code surgical procedures and services, radiology and laboratory procedures and services, code procedures and services in the Medicine section.

1. New patient office visit level 2 case with expanded problem-focused history, expanded problem-focused examination, straightforward medical decision making. Code: _____________________.
2. New patient office visit level 1 case with problem-focused history, problem-focused examination, straightforward decision making. Code: __________________________.
3. Established patient office visit level 2 case with problem-focused history, problem-focused examination, straightforward medical decision making. Code: ________________________.
4. Established patient office visit level 5 case with comprehensive history, comprehensive examination, high-complexity decision making. Code: ____________________________
5. Office visit for a four-year-old male, established patient, with an expanded problem-focused history and physical examination for earache and dyshidrosis of feet and low-complexity medical decision making. Code: __________________

6. Office consultation for a 67-year-old male with chronic low back pain radiating to the left leg requiring a detailed history and examination and low-complexity decision making. Code: __________

7. Emergency department visit for a female who received an abrasion and needs a tetanus toxoid immunization. A problem-focused history and examination was performed, and medical decision making was straightforward. Code: _____________

8. Excision, benign lesion, face, 0.5 cm. Code: _______________

9. Repair layered closure of lt leg 2.7 cm laceration. Code: _________________
10. Closed reduction of rt humeral shaft fracture, no manipulation. Code: __________________
11. Subsequent application of long leg cast (walker). Code: _________________
12. Remove fried potato from left nostril of child. Code: ___________________
13. Simple excision of small nasal polyp. Code: ___________________
14. Introduction of catheter into superior vena cava. Code: __________________
15. Coronary artery bypass using single arterial graft. Code: _________________
16. Biopsy of cervical lymph nodes, open, deep. Code: ___________________
17. Open excision for removal of total spleen. Code: _____________________
18. Liver biopsy; needle; percutaneous. Code: ____________________

Answer 1

1.radiology and laboratory procedures and services,
,2.locate evaluation and management codes,
3.procedures and services in the Medicine section.
4.locate evaluation and management codes,
5.services in the Medicine section
.6. locate evaluation and management
7.procedures and services in the Medicine section
8.surgical procedures and services,
9.surgical procedures and services,
10. surgical procedures and services
11.locate evaluation and management codes
12.procedures and services in the Medicine section.
13.radiology and laboratory procedures and services,
14.procedures and services in the Medicine section.
15.surgical procedures and services
16. radiology and laboratory procedures and services,
17. surgical procedures and services,
18.radiology and laboratory procedures and services,