Medical Billing And Coding Test Questions – Flashcards
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Medical specialty that studies the characteristics and uses of radioactive substances in diagnosis of disease
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Nuclear Medicine
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What does a radiologist do?
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specializes diagnostic techniques such as ultrasound, MRI, and CT scans
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X-ray of the renal pelvis and urinary tract after injecting dye into a vein
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Pyelography
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What is a tomography?
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A scan that takes multiple pictures of small layers of pulmonary tissue
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How is the patient positioned for a PA view?
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Upright with back to x-ray machine and chest is against film
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What is radiolucent?
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Dark pattern, air seen on X-ray normal for lungs
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What is in vivo?
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Process, test or procedure in performed, measure or observed within a living organism.
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What is position emission tomography (PET) ?
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a visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task
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What is in vitro?
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Process, test or procedure in performed, measured, or observed outside a living organism, often a test tube
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What is nuclear medicine?
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Medical specialty that studies the uses of radioactive substances (Radionuclides) in diagnosis of disease
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What is magnetic resonance (MR) ?
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What is a labeled compound?
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Radiopharmaceutical; used in nuclear medicine studies
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What is radioimmunoassay?
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Measures minute quantities of circulating hormone
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What is radioisotope?
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Radioactive from of an element substance; Radionuclide
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What is radiology?
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Medical specialty concerned with the study of x-rays and their use in the diagnosis of disease.
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image of an area, organ or tissue obtained from ultrasound, radioactive tracer studies, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging.
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scan
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Handheld device that sends and receives ultrasound signals
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Transducer
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Attaching a radionuclide to a chemical and following its path in the body
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tagging
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Radiopharmaceutical is inhaled and injected intravenously followed by imaging its passage through the respiratory tract
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ventilation-perfusion studies
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Obstructing the passage of x-rays
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Radiopaque
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diagnostic technique that projects and retrieves high-frequency sound waves as they echo off parts of the body
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ultrasonography or diagnostic ultrasound
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radioactive tracer is injected intravenously and a computer reconstructs a three-dimensional image based on a composite of many views
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Radioactive drug (radionuclide plus chemical) is administered for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
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Radiopharmaceutical
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Time required for a radioactive substance to lose half its radioactivity by disintegration
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Half-life
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A _____ procedure is one that is performed independently of, and not immediately related to, another service
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Separate
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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 of Service
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What is the standard measure of energy in radiation treatment?
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Megaelectron Volts (MeV)
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What is the modifier used to identify the technical component of a radiologic procedure?
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TC
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What are the radioisotopes that attach themselves to red blood cells called?
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tracer
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What is the name of the high frequency sound waves in an imaging process that is used to diagnose patient illness?
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Ultrasound
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In the Path/Lab section of the CPT, drugs are listed by their _____ names.
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Generic
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Qualitative analysis is defined as:
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analysis of a substance in order to ascertain the nature of chemical constituents.
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Quantitative analysis is defined as:
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Determining the amounts and proportions of chemical constituents
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Breast mastectomy-partial/simple
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Level V (5)
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Vas deferens, sterilization
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Level II (2)
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Artery biopsy
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Level IV (4)
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Bursa/synovial cyst
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Level III (3)
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Colon, total resection
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Level VI (6)
