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PART #1: FILL-IN BLANK DIRECTIONS: Fill-in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words or phrases that best completes the sentences. (Evaluation and Management { E / M } Section )

  1. List the five (5) types of presenting problems from the most risk and least recovery to the least risk and most recovery:

a). ______b). ______c) ______d) ______e) ______

  1. List the four (4) types of medical decision making, in order of complexity from most to least complex:

a). ______b). ______c. ______d) ______

  1. Counseling and coordination of care are what kind of factors in most cases? ANS: ______
  1. Time that is used as a guide for out-patient services is what kind of time? ANS: ______
  1. Inpatient time spent at the bedside or nursing station during or after the visit is what kind of time? ANS: ______
  1. The patient’s ______will reflect the number of systems examined by a brief statement of the findings.
  1. The history is the ______information the patient tells the physician.
  1. A discussion with a patient and/or family concerning one or more of the following areas: diagnostic results, impressions and/or recommended diagnostic studies; prognosis, risks, and benefits of treatment; instructions for treatment; importance of compliance with treatment; risk factor reduction; and patient and family education is ______.

MATCHING DIRECTIONS: Match the following terms or phrases on the left hand column with their equivalent definitions found on the right hand column. In the `space' provided place `only' letters!

1. CONSULTATION______A) A face-to-face encounter in an office between the physician and patient..

2. ADMISSION______B) One who has not received services from the physician or another physician in the same

group within the last three years

3. OFFICE VISIT. ______C) Advice or opinion from one physician to another physician

4. NEWBORN CARE______D) One who has been formally admitted to an acute health care facility.

5. ESTABLISHED PATIENT______E) One who has received services from the physician or another physician in the same group

within the last three years..

6. INPATIENT______F) Attention to an acute illness or injury that results in hospitalization.

7. NEW PATIENT ______G). Evaluation and determination of care for a newborn infant

8. OUT PATIENT ______H). One who has not been formally admitted to a health care facility

PART #2: FILL-IN BLANK DIRECTIONS: Fill-in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words or phrases that best completes the sentences. (Anesthesia Section and Modifiers)

  1. What two words describe a decreased level of consciousness that does not put patients completely to sleep and that allows the patients to breathe on their own during a surgical procedure ? ANS: ______.
  2. What do the initials CRNA stand for? ANS: ______.
  1. What appendix in the CPT manual contains a complete list of all modifiers? ANS: ______.
  1. What is the word that means assigning multiple codes when one code would do? ANS: ______.
  1. What is the term that describes the services provided to a patient by the physician before surgery? ANS: ______.
  2. What is another term for the time after the surgery that the physician provides services to the patient? ANS: ______.
  3. Do all third party payers recognize all modifiers as listed in the CPT manual? ANS: ______.
  1. What is the term that describes two physicians working together in the completion of a procedure when each has the same level of responsibility? ANS: ______.

PART #3: MATCHING DIRECTIONS: Match the following terms or phrases on the left hand column with their equivalent definitions found on the right hand column. In the `space' provided place `only' letters! (Cardiovascular System )

1. PERICARDIUM. ______A) Forcing of fluid into a vessel or cavity

2. CARDIOPULMONARY____ B) Blood bypasses the heart through a heart lung machine during open heart surgery.

3. BYPASS______C) Lead attached to a generator that carries the electrical current from the generator to the atria or ventricles.

4. PACEMAKER______D) Vessel that carries unoxygenated blood to the heart from the body tissues

5. SINGLE-CHAMBER ____ E). Blood Clot.

PACEMAKER

6. DUAL-CHAMBER ______F). Abnormal opening from one area to other area or to outside of the body..

PACEMAKER

7. ELECTRODE ______G). To go around..

8. VENTRICLE______H). Surgically placed device that directs an electrical current shock to the heart to restore rhythm..

9. ATRIUM ______I). Blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot or other matter that has moved from another area of the body through the circulatory system

10. CARDIOVERTER-______J). Direct communication (passage) between an artery and vein

DEFIBRILLATOR

11. ARTERY______K). Tube placed into the body to put fluid in or take fluid out..

12. VEIN______L). Surgical or percutaneous procedure on a vessel to dilate the vessel opening, used in the treatment of atherosclerotic disease

13. ANEURYSM______M). Electrode of the pacemaker is placed only in the atrium or only in the ventricle, but not in both places...

14. EMBOLISM______N). Membranous sac enclosing the heart and ends of the great vessels.

15. THROMBOSIS______O). Vessel that carries oxygenated blood

16. ENDARTERECTOMY____P). A sac of clotted blood of fluid formed in the circulatory system (e.g. vein or artery)..

17. ANGIOPLASTY______Q). Incision into an artery to remove the inner lining to remove disease or blockage.

18. INJECTION______R). Divert or make an artificial passage..

19. CATHETER______S). Refers to the heart and lungs.

20. ARTERIOVENOUS______T). Electrodes of the pacemaker are placed in both the atrium and the ventricle of the heart..

FISTULA

21. ANOMALY______U). Deficient blood supply caused by obstruction of the circulatory system.

22. ISCHEMIA ______V). Chamber in the upper part of the heart..

23. CARDIOPULMONARY____W). Electrical device that controls the beating of the heart by electrical impulses.

BYPASS

24. FISTULA ______X). Chamber in the lower part of the heart..

25. SHUNT______Y). Abnormality.

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