RHIA

RHIA practice questions, page 48 of 73, with answer review and explanations.

Question 236

A patient is admitted is alcohol withdrawal suffering from delirium tremens. The patient is a chronic alcoholic and cocaine addict. Which of the following is the principal diagnosis?

  1. alcoholic withdrawal.
  2. chronic alcoholism.
  3. cocaine dependence.
  4. delirium tremens.

Question 237

A patient is admitted with pneumonia. Cultures are requested to determine the infecting organism. Which of the following, if present, would alert the coder to ask the physician whether or not this should be coded as gram-negative pneumonia?

  1. Pseudomonas.
  2. Clostridium.
  3. Staphylococcus.
  4. Listeria.

Question 238

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

  1. American Medical Association
  2. American Hospital Association.
  3. Local fiscal intermediary.
  4. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Question 239

A physician excises a 3.1-cm malignant lesion of the scalp that requires full-thickness graft from the thigh to the scalp. In CPT, which of the following procedures should be coded?

  1. full-thickness skin graft to scalp only
  2. excision of lesion; full-thickness skin graft to scalp
  3. excision of lesion; full-thickness skin graft to scalp; excision of skin from thigh
  4. code 15000 for surgical preparation of recipient site; full-thickness skin graft to scalp

Question 240

A patient is seen by a surgeon who determines that an emergency procedure is necessary. Identify the modifier that may be reported to indicate that the deciion to do surgery was made on this office visit.

  1. -25.
  2. -55.
  3. -57
  4. -58