Step by Step Chapter 16-18 – Flashcards

Ane services include postoperative visits to the patient by the anesthesiologist.

When time is calculated for anesthesia services, the time begins when:

What type of nurse can administer anesthesia under the direction of an anesthesiologist.

99100 is an example of a:

What is the type of sedation that allows a procedure to be performed without pain to the patient, but the patient is not completely asleep.

The anesthesia formula is

The anesthesia status modifier that indicates the patient's condition at the time anesthesia was administered is

If anesthesia was provided to a patient who is not expected to survive without the surgicla procedure being performed, which physical status modifier would be appended to the anesthesia code

Anesthesia for diagnostic arthroscopic procedure of the knee joint.

Anesthesia for burr holes.

Anesthesia for radical hysterectomy.

Daily hospital management of epidural, continuous drug administration.

An 81-year-old patient with mild systemic disease who receives anesthesia for revision of total hip arthroplasty.

Anesthesia services for a 9-month-old normal child who received anesthesia for hernia repair in the lower abdomen.

Debridement of third-degree burns of right arm, 6% body surface area.

Total hip replacement, open procedure.

Code for Strayer procedure.

Tympanostomy of the left ear performed on an 11-month-old female.

Third-party payers determine tenderness contents of a surgical procedure.

When using an unlisted code a(n) ______ must accompany the claim.

The usual global surgery period for a major procedure is

The global surgery period includes

Excision includes simple closure of benign lesions of the skin including this type of anesthesia.

The CPT code that is used to report materials and supplies by the physician for which no other more specific CPT code exists is:

When the words "separate procedure" appear after the descriptor of a code, you know which of the following about that code.

Unlisted vascular endoscopy procedure

Unlisted procedure, endoscopy procedure.

Unlisted procedure, accessory sinuses

Unlisted laparoscopy procedure, lymphatic system.

List drugs, trays, supplies, and material provided

Special services and reports are presented in tenderness medicine section

Complexity of service

Evaluating the patient in the postanesthesia recovery area

when an excision is being performed, the margins refers to the ____ required to adequately excise the lesion based on the physician's judgment.

The removal of a lesion by transverse incision that did not require sutured closure is reported using codes from which subsection.

Excision defined as full thickness would be through the

The repaired wound should be measured or converted to

What 2 items are needed to correctly code for local treatment of burns.

To properly code lesion excision, you must know the behavior and the narrowest margin about the lesion in addition to the following.

Fine needle aspiration of the breast without imaging.

To report an excision of a malignant lesion, the correct range of codes to use would be

Suction lipectomy, lower right leg.

Excision of benign lesion on chest, 0.4 cm with simple closure.

An established patient has a simple removal of sutures performed by the nurse. The physician did NOT perform the initial repair.

Mastopexy

The patient is brought back to the operating room for a staged procedure to a procedure that was performed 5 days previously. Location: Inpatient hospital. Diagnosis: Status post open wound, right lower extremity. Surgical procedure: Split thickness skin graft, right thigh to right lower extremity. Description of procedure: The patient's right leg was prepped with Betadine scrub and solution and draped in the routine sterile fashion. A skin graft was taken from the right thigh on its anterolateral aspect, meshed with 1:1.5 ratio mesh, and applied to the 66 sq cm defect on the right leg with staples. Dressing consisted of Xeroform, Kerlix fluffs, Kerlix roll, Kling, Sof-Rol, and a short leg fiberglass cast. Scarlet Red and ABD pads were applied to the donor site. The patient tolerated the procedure well and left the area in good conditio. Pathology report later indicated benign tissue.