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AHS1650-2 Procedural Coding

Competency Checklist

Name: ____________________________Date: ____________________________Score: ________________

AHS1650-2 Perform Procedural C

Performance Objective: The student will be able to properly codes procedures using the current CPT manual including CPT sections anesthesia, surgery, pathology and laboratory, medicine, and radiology.

Task: Locate CPT codes in sections anesthesia, surgery, pathology and laboratory, medicine, and radiology.

Safety Considerations: None

Scoring System:

1. Each requirement of the procedures for a competency will carry an assigned point value. The point value for each diagnostic code is 10 points.

2. This competency will be scored in accordance with the competency/procedure grading policy.

3. MA Students are required to pass all competencies with a minimum of 75% Materials : Current Procedural Terminology codebook, black pen or pencil. Directions with Performance Evaluations Checklist:

Read the following statements and assign the appropriate CPT code(s) from the above listed

sections. In the CODE column

Your instructor will select 10 procedures for you to code

Write the Procedures assigned and the matching codes and give them to your instructor. They may be sent electronically.

Procedure	Code	Score	1st Attempt	2nd Attempt	3rd Attempt
1. Laprascopic splenectomy
2. Dermabrasion of the segmental face
3. Excision of a mediastinal tumor
4. The gallbladder is removed under laprascopic guidance
5. Biopsy of the vaginal mucosa
6. Radical orchiectomy by inguinal approach due to a tumor
7. A blood count, CBC, automated with a differential
8. Ultrasound bone density measurement and interpretation, peripheral sites, any method
9. Otoplasty of the right ear, with size reduction
10. A dipstick urinalysis for ketones
11. Hearing test using pure tone audiometry: air only
12. Fine needle aspiration of the breast without imaging
13. Suction lipectomy, lower right leg
14. Diagnostic lumbar spinal puncture
15. Bilateral repair of blepharoptosis with frontalis muscle technique
16. A direct ligation of esophageal varices
17. Urography, retrograde with KUB
18. Simple pulmonary stress test
19. Anesthesia for bilateral vasectomy.
20. Anesthesia services for a 9-month-old normal child who received anesthesia for hernia repair in the lower abdomen.
21. Intradermal Tuberculosis (TB) test
Total Points		100	/100	/100	/100
Percent		100

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CAAHEP Standard

IX.P.1 Perform Procedural coding

AHS1650-1 Procedural Coding 1