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| this signifies that the main entry appplies to, and is part of all indented entries that follow with their codes |
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| beginning and ending of new or revised text within the guidelines and instructions notes |
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| moderate (conscious)sedation |
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| null symbol (circle w/line through it) |
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| indicates codes that may not be appended with modifier 51 |
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| PENDING SYMBOL (LIGHTING BOLT) |
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| VACCINE THAT IS PENDING APPROVAL FROM THE FDA |
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| OUT OF NUMERICAL SEQUENCED |
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| REINSTATED CODE SYMBOL (O) |
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| APPLIES TO CATERGORY III CODES THAT HAVE BEEN RECYCLED. |
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| WHICH CODES BEGIN WITH THE NUMBER 99 AND ARE USED TO INDICATE ANESTHESIA SERVICES PROVIDED DURING SITUATIONS THAT MAKE THE ADMINSTRATION OF THE ANESTHIA MORE DIFFICULT |
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| QUALIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES:ANESTHESIA COMPLICATED BY:99100-EXTREME AGE, YOUNGER THAN 1 AND OLDER 70 |
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| ANESTHESIA QUALIFYING CICUMSTANCES 99116 |
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| ANESTHESIA COMPLICATED UTILIZATION OF TOTAL BODY HYPOTHERMIA |
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ANESTHESIA QUALIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES
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| ANESTHESIA COMPLICATED BY UTILIZATION OF CONTROLLED HYPOTENSION |
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| QUALIFYING CURCUMSTANCES 99140 |
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| ANESTHESIA COMPLICATED EMERGENCY CONDITIONS |
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| NAME THE SECTION OF THE CPT AN WHAT NUMBER THEY START WITH |
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| 99201-EVALUATION MANAGEMENT |
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| NAME THE SECTION OF THE CPT AND WHAT NUMBER IT STARTS WITH |
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| NAME THE THE SECTION OF THE CPT AND ITS NUMBER IT STARTS WITH |
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| NAME THE SECTION OF THE CPT AND THE NUMBER IT STARTS WITH |
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| NAME THE SECTION OF THE CPT AND WHAT NUMBER IT STARTS WITH |
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| PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY---80047 |
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| NAME THE SECTION OF THE CPT AND WHAT NUMBER IT STARTS WITH |
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| WHAT ARE QUALIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES |
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| WHEN ANESTHESIA SERVICES ARE PROVIDE UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE OF THE PATIENT'S CONDITION, OPERATION CONDITIONS OR UNUSUAL RISK FACTORS, AN ADDITIONAL CODE MUST BE REPORTED ALONG WITH THE ANESTHESIA SERVICE. CODES 99100-99116-99135-99140 |
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| MAY APPEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF A HEADING, WITHIN PARENTHESES BEFORE OR AFTER A CODE,OR WITHIN PARENTHESES IN THE CODE DESCRIPTION. (PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CODING GUIDELINES,ADDITIONAL EXPLANATION, ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT SERVICES OR PROCEDURES |
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| WHAT IS THE ORDER OF THE CPT |
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| SECTION(SURGERY)-SUBSECTION(CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM)-SUBHEADING(ARTERIES AND VEINS)-CATERGORY(SURGERY OF SKULL BASE)-SUBCATERGORY(APPROACH PROCEDURE)- |
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| EVAULUATION/MANAGMENT CODES START WITH WHAT NUMBER |
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| DESCRIBE SERVICES EXAMPLES |
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| EVALUATION/MANAGEMENT SERVICES, CONSULTAION, ANTEPARTUM CARE, POSTPARTUM CARE, CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TEST(MATERIALS,TISSUES,OR FLUIDS),PSYCHAITRIC EVAULATION, PHYSICIAL THERAPY, TRAINING,VACCINES |
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| DISCRIBE PROCEDURES EXAMPLES |
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| CHOLECYSTECTOMY, INCISION AND DRAINAGE, INCISIONAL HERNIA REPAIR, NEPHRECTOMY, FRACTURE-OPEN/CLOSED TREATMENT |
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| DESCRIBE ANATOMIC SITE EXAMPLES |
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| WHAT IS IN THE FRONT OF EACH SECTION? |
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| A CODE THAT HAS ALL OF THE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE THE CODE FOLLOWING IT |
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| TYPE OF PROCEDURE THAT IS PERFORMED INDEPENDENTLY OF AND IS IMMEDIATLEY RELATED TO, ANOTHER PROCEDURE |
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| WHEN THE WORDS "SEPARATE PROCEDURE" APPEAR AFTER THE DESCRIPTOR OF A CODE, YOU KNOW WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ABOUT THAT CODE? |
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| THE PROCEDURE WAS A MINOR PROCEDURE THAT WOULD ONLY BE CODED IF IT WAS THE ONLY SERVICE PROVIDED |
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| P MODIFIERS REPRESENT ANESTHESIA WHAT ARE THEY |
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| PHYSICAL STATUS MODIFIERS:P1--A NORMAL HEALTHY PATIENT, P2--A PATIENT WITH MILD SYSTEMIC DISEASE,P3--A PATIENT WITH SEVERE SYSTEMIC DISEASE,P4--A PATIENT WITH SEVERE SYSTEMIC DISEASE THAT IS A CONSTANT THREAT TO LIFE,P5--A MORBID PATIENT WHO IS NOT EXPECTED TO SURVIVE WITHOUT OPERATION,P6--A DECLARED BRAIN DEAD PATIENT WHOSE ORGANS ARE BEINF REMOVED FOR DONOR PURPOSES |
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| A TYPE OF SEDATION THAT DECREASES THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT PUTTING TO PATIENT TO SLEEP |
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| MODERATE(CONSCIOUS)SEDATION |
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| -22-INCREASED PROCEDURAL SERVICES |
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| 59-DISTINCT PROCEDURAL SERVICE |
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| 26-PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT |
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| 53-DISCONTINUED PROCEDURE |
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| HOW ARE CODES DIVIDED IN ANESTHESIA |
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| FIRST BY BODY SITE AND THEN BY SPECIFIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE PERFORMED |
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| TUNNELED CATHETERS HAVE AN ENTRANCE SITE AT A DISTANCE FROM WHERE THEY ENTER THE VASCULAR SYSTEM.THESE ARE TUNNELED THROUGH THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TO A GRAT VEIN.(TYPICALLY FOR LONG TERM USE) |
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| FIXED IN PLACE AT THE SITE OF INSERTIC WITH THE CATHETER AND ATTACHMENTS PROTURDING DIRECTLY. |
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| FIXED IN PLACE AT THE SITE OF INSERTIC WITH THE CATHETER AND ATTACHMENTS PROTURDING DIRECTLY. |
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| THE ENDOCRINE SUBSECTION OF THE CPT MANUAL CONTAIN HOW MANY CODES FOR ENDOCRINE GLANDS? |
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| 4 WHICH ARE THYROID GLAND,PARATHYROID GLAND,THYMUS AND ADRENAL GLANDS. |
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| WHAT IS DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY |
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| A PHYSICIAN INSERTS LARYNGOSCOPE AND LOOKS DIRECTLY AT THE LARYNG.THE SCOPE CAN BE EITHER RIGID OR FLEXIBLE.PATIENT IS USUALLY PLACED UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA.A MICROSCOPE MAY ALSO BE USED DURING THE PROCEDURE |
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| SELECTIVE ARTERIAL CATHETERIZATION |
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| CATHETER IS REMOVED,MANIPULATED OR GUIDED INTO A PART OF ARTERIAL SYSTEM OTHER THAN THE AORTA, OR THE VESSEL PUNCTURED |
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| NON SELECTIVE ARTERIAL CATHETERIZATION |
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| PLACEMENT OF THE CATHETER OR NEEDLE DIRECTLY INTO AN ARTERY, OR A NEEDLE IS NEGOTIATED ONLY INTO THE THORACIC OR ABDOMINAL AORTA FROM ANY APPROACH |
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| ANGIOGRAPHY: SELECTIVE CATHETER PLACEMENT |
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| MOVED BEYOND THE VESSEL PUNCTURED OR BEYOND THE AORTA |
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| ANGIOGRAPHY:NONSELECTIVE CATHETER PLACEMENT |
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| VASCULAR CATHTER IS LEFT IN THE VESSEL IN PUNCTURED AND NOT ADVANCED ANY FURTHER; OR IT IS ADVANCED INTO THE AORTA AND NOT BEYOND |
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| FIRST STEP IN CHOOSING DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURE CODE |
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| IDENTIFY THE EXTENT OF THE PROCEDURE |
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| MOST NTRVOAL ANGIOGRAPHY PROCEDURES HAVE HOW MANY COMPONENTS AND WHAT ARE THEY? |
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| 2 SURGICAL COMPONENT AND IMAGING COMPONENT. (IMAGING INCLUDES SUPERVISION AND INTERPRETATION) |
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| HYSTERECTOMY CODES ARE DIVIDED BASED ON WHAT? |
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| SURGICAL APPROACH AND THEN ON ANY SECONDARY PROCEDURE(S) THAT WERE DONE |
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| AT OR NEAR THE FRONT SURFACE OF THE BODY |
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| AT OR NEAR THE BACK SUFACE OF THE BODY |
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| THE DIVISION OF THE SURGEY SECTION ARE BASED ON WHAT? |
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| THE SURGERY SECTION PROVIDES CODES FOR PROCEDURES PERFORMED BY PHYSICIANS OF ANY SPECIALTY TYPE |
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| WHAT 3 THINGS ARE INCLUDE IN A SURGICAL PACKAGE |
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| PREOPERATIVE,INTRAOPERATIVE, POST OPERATIVE |
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| THE DIVISIONS OF THE RADIATION ONCOLOGY SECTION OF THE CPT MANUAL ARE DIVIDED INTO SUBSECTIONS BASED ON WHAT? |
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| TYPE LEVEL AND EXTENT OF SERVICES. OR (JUST SERVICES) |
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| IN PATH/LAB WHAT TYPE OF DRUG TEST MEASURES THE PRESENCE OF A DRUG? |
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| WHAT TYPE OF DRUG TEST MEASURES THE AMOUNT OF A DRUG? |
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| WHAT IS THE NAME GIVEN TO A GROUPED LABORATORY WORK THAT REPRESENTS THOSE TESTS COMMONLY DONE TOGETHER? |
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| HOW MANY CHANGES ARE THERE IN THE 2012 CPT? |
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