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Week 5 Assignment Questions

1. Locate the subheading “Pacemaker or Implantable Defibrillator” following the “Heart and Pericardium” heading in the CPT manual, read the special notes and guidelines provided and identify how electrodes may be inserted.

____An electrodes can be inserted in the atruim or ventricle. ______________________________

2. Locate the table of contents in the surgery/cardiovascular system section of the CPT manual, you would refer to which code range to code for a bypass graft?

_________________33500-35671________

3. Identify the correct code for a patient who underwent a resection of an external cardiac tumor:

_____________33130_____________

4. Identify the correct code for a patient undergoing a tube pericardiostomy procedure:

_______________________33015________

5. Identify the correct code for a patient who underwent surgery for a saphenopopliteal vein anastomosis:

____________34530______________

6. Locate the heading “Thyroid Gland” in the CPT manual, a total thyroidectomy would be coded as:

______________60240____________

7. Locate the table of contents in the surgery/nervous system section of the CPT manual, you would refer to which code range to code for a craniectomy or craniotomy? __________________61304-61576________

8. Locate the table of contents in the surgery/nervous system section of the CPT manual, you would refer to which code range for a Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt?

________62180-62250_________________

9. Provide the correct description for code 60100 from the CPT manual.

___________60100_________________

10. Provide the correct description for code 60280 from the CPT manual.

__________________60280__________

11. Identify the correct code for a patient undergoing surgery for a parathyroidectomy or exploration of the parathyroid(s):

_________60500___________________

12. Identify the correct code for a Torkildsen type operation:

_________62180___________________

13. Identify the correct code for a patient undergoing...