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Musculoskeletal System CPT Guidelines

This document contains an 8 question multiple choice test on coding guidelines for the musculoskeletal system according to CPT codes. The questions cover topics like coding for casts, wound exploration procedures, fracture treatments, and common foot surgeries like bunion correction. Correct answers are provided at the end.

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Musculoskeletal System CPT Guidelines

This document contains an 8 question multiple choice test on coding guidelines for the musculoskeletal system according to CPT codes. The questions cover topics like coding for casts, wound exploration procedures, fracture treatments, and common foot surgeries like bunion correction. Correct answers are provided at the end.

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NAME 

: 
CLASS : 
1. Musculoskeletal System CPT Guidelines
8 Questions DATE  : 

1. Which statement is TRUE about coding for casts as treatment or immobilization of


fractures:

The cast removed by someone other


A than the provider who applied the cast, is B A replacement cast is bundled
bundled into the treatment

All services that appear in the


The type of treatment must match the
Musculoskeletal system section include
C D type of fracture. e.g., Closed fracture
the application and removal of the 1st
must have closed treatment
cast

2. For Wound Exploration code series: 20100- 20103, What is NOT included (bundled):

A Debridement B Removal of Foreign Body

C Laparotomy D Coagulation of muscular blood vessels

3. According to CPT, excision of a vertebral lamina, commonly used to denote removal of


the posterior arch, describes which procedure?

A Facetectomy B Laminotomy

C Corpectomy D Laminectomy

4. Which of the following is not a fracture treatment?

A Reduction B Percutaneous Skeletal fixation

C Resection of Soft Tissue Tumor D External Fixation

5. Which is an example of closed fracture treatment?

A Open Treatment B Manipulation

C Multiplanar external fixation D Percutaneous Skeletal Fixation


?
6. If the physician who carried out a reduction of a fracture has to perform a re-reduction of
the same fracture, the following modifier is appended:

A 76 B 78

C 56 D 77

7. Which procedure is NOT coded using 20610

A Arthrotomy B Aspiration

C Injection D Arthrocentesis

8. Which procedure describes bunion surgery?

A Capsulotomy B Hallux Rigidus

Hallux Valgus Correction with proximal


C D Hallux RigidusCorrection with implant
phalanx base resection

Answer Key

1.c 2.c 3.d 4.c

5.b 6.a 7.a 8.c

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