Multiple choice

1. A patient is admitted with a small pouch extending from the duodenum. The coder will 

probably report category

A. 562.01—diverticulitis. 

B. 562.00—diverticulosis. 

C. 532.30—duodenal ulcer.

D. 531.30—acute gastric ulcer.

2. When minor adhesions are lysed as part of another procedure, how should you code the lysis

of adhesions?

A. As an additional procedure

B. As an incision

C. Don’t code the lysis of adhesions.

D. Depends on the approach used

3. How should the presence of hematuria after a urinary tract procedure or prostatectomy 

be coded? 

A. 599.0

B. 599.7

C. 998.89

D. It shouldn’t be coded unless directed by the physician.

4. When a patient has both hypertension and renal disease, a relationship is presumed and

coded as one code together except in the case of

A. acute renal failure. 

B. chronic renal failure. 

C. renal disease with heart disease.

D. acute renal disease.