1. Which of the following sequences correctly depicts the flow of blood through the heat to the lungs?

2. The most common blood borne infection in the United States is

3. If this physician is a nonparticipating physician who does NOT accept assignment for this claim, the total amount he will receive is

4. The Level I (CPT) codes of the HCPCS coding system are maintained by the

5. This document is published by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) every year. It details the OIG

6. A 75-year-old man is admitted to your facility with acute cerebral embolism with infarction. He had hemiplegia and dysphagia. Physical therapy was given for the hemiplegia. Dysphagia was resolved at the time of discharge

7. Mark has a long history of epilepsy. He is brought to the emergency department and is admitted with intractable epileptic seizures. Mark's epilepsy is the result of a head injury he suffered several years ago.

8. A vision-related pathology that is caused by diabetes is

9. The drug commonly used to treat bipolar mood swings is

10. Under APCs, payment status indicator

11. Decrease in blood pressure, salivation, and heart rate are examples of

12. Common kidney stone treatments that allow small particles to be flushed out of the body through the urinary system include all of the following EXCEPT

13. To monitor timely claims processing in a hospital, a summary report of

14. Infant with clubfoot. Correction by Evans operation

15. The hospital outpatient prospective payment system for Medicare applies to all of the following EXCEPT.

16. The patient underwent bypass surgery for life-threatening coronary artery disease. With the aid of extracorporeal circulation, the right internal mammary artery was taken down to the left anterior descending artery and saphenous vein grafts were brought from the aorta to the diagonal, the right coronary artery, and the posterior descending artery. What is the correct ICD-9-CM coding for this procedure?

17. A pathological diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma is made. The examined tissue was removed from the

18. According to ICD-9-CM, which one of the following is NOT a mechanical complication of an internal implant?

19. In relation to birth defects registries, active surveillance systems

20. Which modifier indicates that a signed ABN is on file?

21. Josephine has developed senile cataracts in both eyes. She is admitted for right extracapsular cataract extraction with synchronous lens insertion.

22. john Palmer was in a car accident and sustained sever chest trauma resulting in a tension pneumothorax. Manifestations of this disorder include all of the following EXCEPT

23. Atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease of the lower leg with claudication. Angioplasty of the lower leg artery performed.

24. Patient is admitted with a left ankle fracture. Patient also has AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma of the skin. Patient received a closed reduction with internal fixation of the ankle fracture.

25. Health plans that use _________ reimbursement methods issue lump-sum payments to providers to compensate them for all the health care services delivered to a patient fro a specific illness and/or over a specific period of time.