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The AAPC CPC medical coding exam has 150 multiple choice questions and five hours and forty minutes is given to complete the exam.  The AHIMA exam has between 90 and 115 questions and must be completed in two hours.
 

Medical Coder Practice Test
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1. A 2-year-old child had their humerus fractured by a falling dresser and requires anesthesia to repair the break because they will not hold still for a reduction. The procedure billed is 24505. What anesthesia service is reported?
2. Which of the following are considered fraudulent:
3. Medicare pays Skilled Nursing Facilities with a prospective payment system. Reimbursement is based on:
4. An open-record review is when:
5. A patient comes in after her pressure cooker has exploded and covered her face with boiling soup. She was luckily wearing a sweater which protected her arms. She has partial-thickness burns covering her entire face. What is the correct CPT code to be assigned as the hospital removes chicken, celery and burnt tissue from her face and places dressings on it?
6. A patient comes into the office with white fuzzy patches on their tongue and is diagnosed with oral hairy leukoplakia. The provider runs a test for HIV and notates that the patient has HIV in the chart, but does not have a positive lab test yet. The patient is a smoker. What is the correct sequencing of these ICD-10 codes?
7. Which of the following is NOT a component of Personal Health Information
8. You work at a billing company, coding charts for clients. Your manager sends out claims that have not been coded professionally because your team is 2 months behind and out of compliance with your service line agreement in the contract with your client, but says that it is okay because the provider has coded the claims at the time of service and the client does not want to pay for extra coding. Which of the following statements is true?
9. For Medicare's OPPS, payment status indicator C indicates that the HCPCS is:
10. For urosepsis, a coder must:
11. Facility payments are based on:
12. What is the difference between an EHR and an EMR?
13. A 7-year-old child presents for a series of vaccines. The patient receives MMR and DTaP and counseling on vaccines. The correct CPT code assignment for this procedure is:
14. A patient presents with CKD stage III, edema and hypertension. The correct ICD-10 CM codes for this chart are:
15. Pressure ulcers, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, falls and head trauma, DVTs and pulmonary embolisms are all examples of:
16. A patient presents with CKD stage III, edema and hypertension. The correct ICD-10 CM codes for this chart are:
17. You work at a billing company, coding charts for clients. Your manager sends out claims that have not been coded professionally because your team is 2 months behind and out of compliance with your service line agreement in the contract with your client, but says that it is okay because the provider has coded the claims at the time of service and the client does not want to pay for extra coding. Which of the following statements is true?
18. A 25-year-old patient is 27 weeks and 6 days pregnant. The patient is experiencing dysuria and blood in her urine. She is diagnosed with acute cystitis. What is the correct coding of this patient's chart?
19. For urosepsis, a coder must:
20. These components create a patient's history:
21. A 2-year-old child had their humerus fractured by a falling dresser and requires anesthesia to repair the break because they will not hold still for a reduction. The procedure billed is 24505. What anesthesia service is reported?
22. Pressure ulcers, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, falls and head trauma, DVTs and pulmonary embolisms are all examples of:
23. The Breach Notification Rule, found in the ______ Rule of HIPAA, states that when _____ individuals have had their confidential data exposed and the covered entity has outdated contact information for them, that the covered entity must_____ for ______ days.
24. The Breach Notification Rule, found in the ______ Rule of HIPAA, states that when _____ individuals have had their confidential data exposed and the covered entity has outdated contact information for them, that the covered entity must_____ for ______ days.
25. Which of the following standards are used to create standardized nomenclature within an electronic health record program?