Medical Ethics Correct Answer: Standards of conduct based on moral principals. Acting within ethical
behavior boundries means carrying out one's responsibilities with integrity, decency, respect, honesty,
competenc
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Medical Ethics Correct Answer: Standards of conduct based on moral principals. Acting within ethical
behavior boundries means carrying out one's responsibilities with integrity, decency, respect, honesty,
competence, fairness and trust.
Compliance Regulations Correct Answer: Most billing related cases are based on HIPAA and the False
Claims Act.
HIPAA is an acronym for Correct Answer: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Category 1 CPT codes Correct Answer: Medical Procedures.
Category 2 CPT codes Correct Answer: Supplemental Codes for Performance Measures.
Category 3 CPT codes Correct Answer: Emerging Technologies.
Add on Codes Correct Answer: Used for procedures that are always performed during the same
operative session, as another surgery in addition to the primary service/procedure and is never
performed separately.
Anesthesia is found Correct Answer: 00100-01999, 99100-99140.
Evaluation and Management (E&M) codes Correct Answer: Are listed first in the CPT manual because
they are used by all the different specialties.
Brackets Correct Answer: Used to enclose synonyms, alternative wording or and explanatory phrase.
Bullets Correct Answer: Represents a new procedure or service code added since the previous edition
of the manual.
Chief Complaint (CC) Correct Answer: The reason the patient came to see the physician.
Circle with a line through it (��) Correct Answer: Exemption from modifier 51.
CPT Correct Answer: Used to report services and procedures by physicians.
E&M codes Correct Answer: 99201-99499
Guidelines are found Correct Answer: At the beginning of each section and used to provide specific
coding rules for that section.
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