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abdomin/o - ✔abdomen -agon - ✔assemble -22 - ✔Increase procedural services When should an ABN be signed? - ✔When a service is not expected to be covered by Medicare. acetabul/o - ✔hip socket -78 - ✔Unplanned return to the operating/procedure room by the same physician or other qualified health care professional following initial procedure for a related procedure during the postoperative procedure -algesia - ✔pain sensation ABG - ✔Arterial blood gas Absence - ✔without a- - ✔not acr/o - ✔height/extremities -79 - ✔Unrelated procedure or service by the same physician during the postoperative period What are NCD's interpreted at the MAC level considered? - ✔LCD -algia - ✔pain ABN - ✔Advance Beneficiary Notice; used by CMS to notify beneficiary of payment of provider services adipose - ✔fatty an- - ✔not ante- - ✔before Albinism - ✔Lack of color pigment ACL - ✔anterior cruciate ligament AD -
✔right ear AFB - ✔acid-fast bacillus AFI - ✔Amniotic fluid index AGA - ✔appropriate for gestational age -ar - ✔pertaining to -arche - ✔beginning -ary - ✔pertaining to -asthenia - ✔weakness -blast - ✔embryonic -capnia - ✔carbon dioxide -cele - ✔hernia -centesis - ✔puncture to remove (drain) What is medical billing? - ✔Translating medical documentation into codes. What part of Medicare should be billed for the pain medication by the pharmacy? - ✔Part D The amount on an ABN should be within how much of the cost to the patient? - ✔$100 or 25% of cost. An entity that processes nonstandard health information they receive from another entity into a standard is considered what? - ✔Clearinghouse. What is PHI? - ✔Personal Health Information. Intentional billing of services not provided is considered? - ✔Fraud. What OIG document should a provider review for potential problem areas that will receive special scrutiny in the upcoming year? - ✔OIG Work Plan. Each year in October. -80 - ✔Assistant surgeon -81 - ✔Minimum assistant surgeon -82 - ✔Assistant surgeon (when qualified resident surgeon not available) -90 - ✔Reference (outside) laboratory -91 - ✔Repeat clinical diagnostic laboratory test -99 -
✔fat adren/o, adrenal/o - ✔adrenal gland albin/o - ✔white albumin/o - ✔albumin alveol/o - ✔alveolus brady- - ✔slow de- - ✔lack of dys- - ✔difficult, painful ecto- - ✔outside endo- - ✔in epi- - ✔on/open Anhidrosis - ✔Deficiency in which hair falls out Autograft - ✔From patients own body Avulsion - ✔Ripping or tearing away of part either surgically or accidentally ANS - ✔autonomic nervous system APCs - ✔Ambulatory Payment Classification, patients classification that provided a payment system for outpatients ARDS - ✔adult respiratory distress syndrome ARF - ✔acute renal failure -drome - ✔run -dynia - ✔pain What is OIG? - ✔Office of Inspector General. Monitors and enforces compliance. What is CMS? - ✔Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Basic guidelines for private practice and rules. a-,an- - ✔Without, lack of, absent, deficient Ab-,abs- - ✔From, away Ad- -
✔Near, toward -algia,-algesia - ✔Pain -26 - ✔Professional component -32 - ✔Mandated services -47 - ✔Anesthesia by surgeon ambly/dim - ✔dim amni/o - ✔amnion an/o - ✔anus eso- - ✔inward eu- - ✔good/normal exo- - ✔outward Biopsy - ✔Removal of a small piece of living tissue from a wound Causalgia - ✔Burning pain Collagen - ✔Protein substance of skin ARM - ✔artificial rupture of membrane AS - ✔left ear ASCUS - ✔atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance ASCVD - ✔arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease ASD - ✔atrial septal defect ASHD - ✔arteriosclerotic heart disease AU - ✔both ears Ambi- - ✔Both Angio - ✔Vessel (blood or lymph) Ano - ✔Anus Ante- - ✔Before Anti- -
✔below-knee amputation BP - ✔blood pressure BPD - ✔biparietal diameter BPH - ✔benign prostatic hypertrophy BPP - ✔biophysical profile BUN - ✔blood urea nitrogen BV - ✔bacterial vaginosis bx - ✔biopsy C1-C7 - ✔cervical vertebrae CA/ca - ✔cancer Debridement - ✔Cleansing of, or removal of, dead tissue from wound Delayed flap - ✔Pedicle skin with blood supply that is separated from origin over time Dermabrasion - ✔Planing of skin by means of sander, brush, or sandpaper Dermatologist - ✔Physician who treats condition of skin Dermatoplasty - ✔Surgical repair of skin Electrocautery - ✔Cauterization by means of heated instrument Epidermolyis - ✔Loosening of epidermis Epidermomycosis - ✔Superficial fungal infection Epithelium - ✔Surface covering of internal and external organs of the body Erythema - ✔Redness of the skin Fissure - ✔Cleft or groove Free full-thickness graft - ✔Graft of epidermis and dermis that is completely removed from the donor extra- - ✔outside hemi- - ✔half hyper- - ✔excess, over in- -
✔into inter- - ✔between intra- - ✔within meta- - ✔change, after multi- - ✔many Cardio - ✔Heart -cele - ✔Tumor, swelling, hernia, sac -centesis - ✔Puncture Cephalo - ✔Head Chole - ✔Gall Cholecysto - ✔Gall bladder Choledocho - ✔Common bile duct Chondro - ✔Cartilage -cide - ✔Kill Circum - ✔Around -cise - ✔Cut -57 - ✔Decision for surgery -58 - ✔Staged or related procedure or service by the same physician during a postoperative period -59 - ✔Distinct procedural service -62 - ✔Two surgeons -63 - ✔Procedure performed on infants less than 4 kgs -76 - ✔Repeat procedure or service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional -77 - ✔Repeat procedure or service by another physician or other qualified health care professional -emia - ✔blood
✔Allograft, same species graft Ichthyosis - ✔Skin disorder characterized by scaling Incise - ✔To cut into Island pedicle flap - ✔Contains a single artery and vein that remains attached to origin temporarily or permanently Leukoderma - ✔Depigmentation of the skin Leukoplakia - ✔White patch on mucous membrane Lipocyte - ✔Fat cell Lipoma - ✔Fatty tumor Melanin - ✔Dark pigment of skin neo- - ✔new nulli-/nulti- - ✔none oxy- - ✔sharp. oxygen pan- - ✔all para- - ✔bedside per- - ✔through peri- - ✔surrounding poly- - ✔many post- - ✔after primi- - ✔first pseudo-o - ✔false quardi- - ✔four Colo - ✔Colon Colpo - ✔Vagina Contra - ✔Against Costo - ✔Rib
Cranio - ✔Skull Cyano - ✔Blue Cysto - ✔Urinary bladder Denti - ✔Tooth Dermo, dermato - ✔Skin Di- - ✔Two Dia- - ✔Through, between, across, apart -in - ✔a substance -ine - ✔a substance -itis - ✔inflammation -listhesis - ✔slipping -lithiasis - ✔separation -malacia - ✔softening -megaly - ✔enlargement -meta - ✔change -meter - ✔measurement; instrument that measures -oid - ✔resembling -oma - ✔tumor CPAP - ✔continuous positive airway pressure CPD - ✔cephalopelvic disproportion CPK - ✔creatine phosphokinase CPP - ✔chronic pelvic pain CSF - ✔cerebrospinal fluid CTS - ✔carpal tunnel syndrome CVA - ✔stroke/cerebrovascular accident
En- - ✔In, inside Encephalo - ✔Brain Endo - ✔Within inner, on the inside Entero - ✔Intestine Epi- - ✔Above, over Erythro - ✔Red -esthesia - ✔Sensation -omia - ✔smell -one - ✔hormone -opia - ✔vision -opsy - ✔view of -orrhexis - ✔rupture -osis - ✔condition -oxia - ✔oxygen -para - ✔woman who has giving birth -paresis - ✔incomplete paralysis -parous - ✔to bear -penia - ✔deficient DHHS - ✔Department of Health and Human Services DLCO - ✔diffuse capacity of lungs for carbon monoxide DRGS - ✔Diagnosis Related Groups, disease classification system that relates the type of inpatients a hospital treats (case mix) to the costs incurred by the hospital DSE - ✔dobutamine stress echocardiography retro- - ✔behind sub- - ✔under supra- -
✔above sym- - ✔together syn- - ✔together tachy- - ✔fast tetra- - ✔four tri- - ✔three tropin- - ✔act upon uni- - ✔one ab- - ✔Away from (abduction -pexy - ✔fixation -phagia - ✔eating -phonia - ✔sound -phylaxis - ✔protection -physis - ✔to grow -plasty - ✔repair -plegia - ✔paralysis -pnea - ✔breathing -poiesis - ✔production -porosis - ✔passage -retro - ✔behind ad- - ✔toward (adduction) ecto, exo- - ✔outside (ectopic, exocrine) endo- - ✔within (endoscope) infra- - ✔below, under (infrastructure) ipsi- - ✔same (ipsilateral) meso- -
✔Fat Lith - ✔Stone, calculus -lysis - ✔Loosen, dissolve Macro- - ✔Large, long Mal- - ✔Bad, poor, disordered -mania - ✔Insanity Mast - ✔Breast Mega- - ✔Large Men - ✔Month Meso- - ✔Middle -meter - ✔Measure Metro - ✔Uterus Micro - ✔Small Mono- - ✔Single, one Muco - ✔Mucous membrane Myelo - ✔Spinal cord, bone marrow Myo - ✔Muscle Narco - ✔Sleep Naso - ✔Nose Necro - ✔Death Neo- - ✔New Nephro - ✔Kidney Neuro - ✔Nerve Non- - ✔No, not Oculo - ✔Eye -ology -
✔Study of Oophor - ✔Ovary Ophthalmo - ✔Eye Orchi - ✔Testicle -rrhaphy - ✔To repair a defect, suture Ortho- - ✔Straight -oscopy - ✔Look into, see Osteo - ✔Bone -ostomy - ✔Surgical opening Oto - ✔Ear -otomy - ✔Incision, to cut into Para- - ✔Along side Path - ✔Disease Ped (latin) - ✔Foot Ped (greek) - ✔Child peri- - ✔Around, covering pharyngo - ✔Throat phlebo - ✔Vein -phobia - ✔Fear, dread plegia - ✔Paralysis Pneum - ✔Air, lungs -rrhagia - ✔bursting of blood rrhea - ✔discharge -schisis - ✔split -sclerosis - ✔hardening -scopy -
✔The hyphen is located between two codes in the index of the CPT manual, indicating a range of codes is available
