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What is the appropriate abbreviation for base units?


A) Bun
B) B
C) BU
D) BaU

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One remaining surgical procedure is scheduled in the surgical suite for the day. The attending anesthesiologist prepares the day's documentation while remaining available for one CRNA that provides anesthesia administration for today's last case. When billing for this anesthesia service, the coder should use modifier _______ to describe the anesthesiologist's role in providing anesthesia.


A) QK
B) AD
C) AA
D) QY

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The main term for anesthesia services in the CPT manual is:


A) Sometimes the body region, sometimes the type of anesthesia given
B) Sometimes Anesthesia, sometimes the body region
C) Always Anesthesia
D) Always the body region

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(T) is the abbreviation for:


A) Total base units
B) Total time of anesthesia care
C) Total modifying factors
D) Total time of procedure

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Preoperative and postoperative visits:


A) Are typically not coded separately from a routine anesthesia service
B) May be coded separately from a routine anesthesia service
C) Are only coded when procedures are performed for postoperative pain management
D) Do not have separate CPT codes in the manual

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Intraoperatively, a forty-two-year-old female patient's anesthesia service was converted from MAC to general anesthesia due to her inability to control her airway. This service is coded as:


A) General anesthesia with the appropriate physical status and qualifying-circumstance modifiers
B) Oxygen administration only
C) MAC with the appropriate physical status and qualifying-circumstance modifiers
D) MAC with oxygen administration

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The word "anesthesia" means:


A) Without feeling
B) Without movement
C) Without sensation
D) Without response

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Qualifying-circumstance modifiers 99116 and 99135 add ____ additional units to an anesthesia CPT code.


A) 8
B) 5
C) 6
D) 4

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A seventy-five-year-old patient is identified in the pre-op room and brought to the surgical suite for bypass coronary artery surgery. The anesthesia provided for this service would be described by the appropriate anesthesia CPT code and qualifying-circumstance modifier:


A) 99140
B) 99116
C) 99100
D) 99135

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Modifiers that are used with all anesthesia procedure codes to rank the physical condition of the patient and the level of anesthesia complexity inherent to each ranking are:


A) status modifiers
B) qualifying circumstances
C) post-anesthesia care units
D) physical-status modifiers

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The following qualifying-circumstance modifier(s) add(s) one (1) additional unit to an anesthesia CPT code:


A) 99140 and 99100
B) 99135
C) 99140
D) 99100

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All of the following are considered part of the work of an anesthesia service and are not coded separately except:


A) Administration of fluids and/or blood
B) Usual monitoring services
C) Insertion of Swan-Ganz
D) Preoperative and postoperative visits

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A forty-six-year-old patient is waiting to be induced into anesthesia. Two CRNAs were originally scheduled to administer anesthesia to this patient, under supervision of an anesthesiologist. The CRNAs are still attending to another patient and the supervising anesthesiologist has to administer anesthesia for this patient. This would be reported using the following anesthesia-specific modifier:


A) AA
B) QK
C) QY
D) AD

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For anesthesia services, time begins when:


A) The patient's surgical procedure has begun
B) The patient is identified in the pre-operating room
C) The patient is being prepared for anesthesia by the anesthesiologist
D) The patient is determined to be successfully under anesthesia administered by the anesthesiologist

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For anesthesia services, time ends when:


A) The anesthesiologist is no longer attending the patient
B) The patient's surgical procedure has ended
C) The anesthesiologist determines the patient is successfully under anesthesia
D) The surgeon is no longer attending the patient

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Endotracheal through existing tracheotomy, or via a mask, or nasal cannula are examples of the type of method of:


A) Airway management
B) Post-anesthesia care
C) Medical direction
D) Monitored anesthesia care

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MAC for a patient who has a history of a severe cardiopulmonary condition is communicated by using modifier:


A) QS
B) G9
C) G8
D) QT

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The type of anesthesia used is determined by the:


A) condition of the patient and availability of nurse anesthetists
B) surgical procedure and condition of the patient
C) condition of the patient and age of the patient
D) surgical procedure and specialty of the surgeon

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99140 is the only qualifying-circumstances modifier that adds _____ additional units to the anesthesia CPT code to which it is appended:


A) 4
B) 3
C) 5
D) 2

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The surgeon performing the surgical procedure typically also performs this type of anesthesia:


A) Moderate (conscious) sedation
B) General anesthesia
C) Monitored anesthesia care
D) Surgical anesthesia

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