Abdomen - ANSWER The region located between the lowest ribs and the hipbones
Abdominopelvic - ANSWER Includes the abdominal and pelvic
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Axillary - ANSWER Pertaining to the armpits
Coxal - ANSWER Pertaining to the hips
Dorsum - ANSWER Posterior surface of the thorax
Genital - ANSWER External reproductive organs
Gluteal - ANSWER The buttocks
Inguinal - ANSWER The Groin
Lumbar - ANSWER The lower back
Pectoral - ANSWER The chest
Perineal - ANSWER The region between the anus an external reproductive organs
Pelvic - ANSWER The regional enclosed by the pelvic bones
Sacral - ANSWER The region over the sacrum and between the buttocks
vertebral - ANSWER The region over the backbone
Acanth - ANSWER Spiny, thorny
Light - ANSWER Actin, Phot
Aer - ANSWER Air, gas example aerosol
Pain - ANSWER Alge, algesi, algio, algo
Allograft - ANSWER A tissue graft from a donor of the same species
Autograft - ANSWER A tissue graft from on point to another on the same individual
Amyl - ANSWER Starch
Andro - ANSWER Masculine
Athero - ANSWER Plaque, fatty substance
Bacill, Bacteri - ANSWER Bacilli, bacteria
Bar - ANSWER Weight, pressure
Bas, basi - ANSWER Base
Life - ANSWER Bio, Zoo, vivi
Blast - ANSWER Immature cells
Cac - ANSWER Bad, ill
Calc, calci - ANSWER Calcium
Carcin - ANSWER Cancer
Chem - ANSWER Chemical
Chlor - ANSWER Chlorine, green
Chondrio, chondro - ANSWER Cartledge, grainy, gritty
Chore - ANSWER Dance
Color - ANSWER Chrom, chromat, chromo
Chrono - ANSWER Time
Chyl - ANSWER Chyle, digestive juice
Chym - ANSWER Chyme, semifluid produced of chyl and partially digested food
Coni - ANSWER Dust
Crin - ANSWER Secrete
Cry - ANSWER Cold
Crypt - ANSWER Hidden, obscure
Cyan - ANSWER Blue
Cycl - ANSWER Circle, cycle, cilliary body
Cyst, - ANSWER Bladder, cyst, cystic duct
Cyt - ANSWER Cell
Dextr - ANSWER Right, toward right
Dips - ANSWER Thirsty
Dors, doris - ANSWER Back.
Dynamo - ANSWER Force, energy
Echo - ANSWER Reflected sound
Electro - ANSWER Electricity, electric
Eosin - ANSWER Red, rosy
Ergo - ANSWER Work
Erythro - ANSWER Red, redness
Esthesio - ANSWER Sedation, perception
Ethmo - ANSWER Ethmoid bone
Etio - ANSWER Cause
Fibr - ANSWER Fiber
Fluor - ANSWER Light, luminous, fluorine
Fungi - ANSWER Fungus
Gen - ANSWER Producing, being born
Gero, geront - ANSWER Old age
Gluco - ANSWER Glucose
Glyco - ANSWER Sugars
Gonio - ANSWER Angle
Granulo - ANSWER Granular
Women - ANSWER Gyn, gyne, gyneco
Home, homo - ANSWER Same, constant
Latr - ANSWER Physician, treatment
Ichthy - ANSWER Dry, scaly, fish
Idio - ANSWER Distinct, unknown
Immun - ANSWER Safe, immune
Kal - ANSWER Potassium
Karyo - ANSWER Nucleus
Ket, keton - ANSWER Ketone, acetone
Movement - ANSWER Kin, kine, cine
Kyph - ANSWER Humpback
Milk - ANSWER Lact, lacti, Galact
Lepto - ANSWER Light, frail, thin
Latero - ANSWER Lateral, to one side
Leuk - ANSWER White
Lipo - ANSWER Fat
Lith - ANSWER Stone
Log - ANSWER Speech, words, thoughts
Lys - ANSWER Break down, loosen or dissolved
Macr - ANSWER Structure, shape
Medi, Mes - ANSWER Middle, medial place
Mega, megal - ANSWER Large, million
Melan - ANSWER Black, dark
Micro - ANSWER Small, one-millionth, tiny
Mio - ANSWER Smaller, less
Morph - ANSWER Structure, shape
Narco - ANSWER Sleep, numbness
Necr - ANSWER Death, dying
Night - ANSWER Noct, nyct
Norm - ANSWER Normal
Tumor - ANSWER Oncho, onco
Orth - ANSWER Straight, normal
Oxy - ANSWER Sharp, acute, oxygen
Pachy - ANSWER Thick
Path - ANSWER Disease
Phago - ANSWER Eating, devouring, swallowing
Pharmaco - ANSWER Drugs, medicine
Phon - ANSWER Sound voice, speech
Physic - ANSWER Physical, nature
Physo - ANSWER Air, gas, growing
Phyt - ANSWER Plant
Plasma - ANSWER Formative, plasma
Poikilo - ANSWER Varied, irregular
Pseud - ANSWER False
Pyo - ANSWER Puss
Pyerto - ANSWER Fever
Pyro - ANSWER fire, heat
Radio - ANSWER Radiation, x-ray, radius
Salping - ANSWER Tube
Schisto - ANSWER Split
Schiz - ANSWER Split, division
Scler - ANSWER Hardness, hardening
Scolio - ANSWER Crooked, bent
Scoto - ANSWER Darkness
Sidero - ANSWER Iron
Sito - ANSWER Food, grain
Somat - ANSWER Body
Sono - ANSWER Sound
Spasmo - ANSWER Spasm
Sphere - ANSWER Round, spherical
Spir - ANSWER Breath, breathe
Squamo - ANSWER Scale, squamous
Staphyl - ANSWER Grape-like cluster
Steno - ANSWER Narrowness
Stere - ANSWER Three-dimensional
Strepto - ANSWER Twisted chains, streptococci
Styl - ANSWER Peg-shaped
Tel, tele - ANSWER Distant, end, complete
Terato - ANSWER Monster (as in malformed fetus)
Therm - ANSWER Heat
Tono - ANSWER Tension, pressure
Top - ANSWER Place, topical
Tox,toxico, toxo - ANSWER Poison, toxin
Tropho - ANSWER Food, nutrition
Xanth - ANSWER Yelloww
Xeno - ANSWER Stranger
Xer - ANSWER Dry
Xiph - ANSWER Sword, xiphoid
Zym - ANSWER Fermentation, enzyme
Heteropsia - ANSWER Unequal vision in the two eyes
Fluoroscopy - ANSWER An x-ray procedure allowing visualization or internal organs in motion
Macula - ANSWER Does not contribute to refraction in the eye
Tympanic membrane - ANSWER Separates the external ear from the middle ear
CPT Category III - ANSWER Reimbursement, if any, is determined by the payer
000 - ANSWER Surgical status indicator represent the surgical global package for endoscopic procedures
Medicare administrative contractor - ANSWER (MAC)If an incident doesn't exist for a particular service procedure performed on Medicare patient MAC determines coverageLocal coverage determination are administered by Medicare administrative contractors MAC.
All of the above - ANSWER The surgical global package applies to services performed in what setting; hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, physicians office
1996 - ANSWER When was HIPPA made a law
HCPCS Level II - ANSWER Permanent national codes, miscellaneous codes, and temporary national codes
Ambulance modifiers - ANSWER They identify ambulance place of origin and destination
Abnormally high intraocular pressure - ANSWER A patient diagnosed with glaucoma has
Medulla - ANSWER The part of the brain that controls blood pressure, heart rate and respiration
Recommended/prescribed - ANSWER Procedures that haven't been done
Z codes - ANSWER What goes before a diagnosis when it's an encounter for
96361x4 = 4 - ANSWER When coding an + on code with x a certain amount that code is not 1, you have the original code, + on code x how many the add on code is worth
Bethesda - ANSWER Negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy
Subendocardial AMI - ANSWER If an AMI is documented as non-transmural or subendocardial, but the site is provided, how was it reported
OIG Workplan - ANSWER It reports on areas of billing compliance targeted for reviews for physician practice
MRSA - ANSWER Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
Sedation - ANSWER What is not considered anesthesia
As though it was a simple closure - ANSWER Went to shoe glue is used to close the wound involving the epidermis layer how was it reported
Upper gastrointestinal exam - ANSWER UGI radiological evaluation of the esophagus, stomach and first proportion of the duodenum. What does UGI stand for?
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty - ANSWER A 35-year-old patient presented to the ASC for PTA. What does the PTA stand for
Ambulatory surgery center - ANSWER A 35-year-old patient presented to the ASC for PTA. What does the ASC stand for
Neoplasm table - ANSWER It has six columns primary malignancy, secondary malignancy, CA in situ, benign, and uncertain behavior
Medicare A - ANSWER Hospitals only, does not cover outpatient charges
Medicare B - ANSWER Both hospitals and clinics
Medicare C - ANSWER Known as Medicare advantage programs, such as true blue, Humana, etc.
Medicare D - ANSWER Drug benefit coverage
IT - ANSWER The table of drugs in the HCPCS level II book indicates various medication roots of administration. This abbreviation represents the root word drug is introduced into the subdermal space of the spinal cord
PERRLA - ANSWER Pupils equal, round, reactive to light and accommodation
Arthocentesis - ANSWER removal of fluid from a joint
Amniocentesis - ANSWER The puncturing and removal of amniotic fluid from the amniotic sac during pregnancy
Pericardiocentesis - ANSWER The puncturing of the pericardium a double walled sack surrounding the heart for removal of excess fluid
Paracentesis - ANSWER The puncture in the removal of fluid from within a body cavity
Proximal - ANSWER The part of the bone or organ that is attached first
Distal - ANSWER The part of the bone or organ that is the furthest
Scapulohumeral muscles - ANSWER coracobrachialis muscle, deltoid muscle, rotator cuff muscles,
infraspinatus muscle
subscapularis muscle,
supraspinatus muscle,
teres minor muscle,
teres major muscle
Hemic & lymphatic - ANSWER The spleen belongs to what organ system
Cardia fundus - ANSWER Where the esophagus joins the stomach
Advanced beneficiary notice - ANSWER ABN must be signed before the service or procedure is provided to the patient
True - ANSWER Category three codes are temporary codes for emerging technology, services and procedures. If a category three code exist, it should be used instead of an unlisted procedure code in category one True or false
Medical necessity - ANSWER The condition of the patient justifies the service provided
False - ANSWER External cause codes are only used in the initial encounter true or false
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