Chapter 29 - Pathology Study Guide

How many levels of Surgical Pathology are there?

6

What is the name of the subsection within Pathology/Laboratory that deals with laboratory work performed to determine cellular damages?

Cytopathology

For repeat lab tests performed on the same day, the correct modifier is -51

False

When a pathologist provides a consultation involving the examination and evaluation of a patient, the service reported is 80500 or 80502

False

When reporting organ or disease oriented panels, if all but one tests within the panel is substantiated by the physicin's documentation, it is acceptable to assign the code with modifier -52 to the code used to report the service

False

What is the name given to grouped laboratory work that represents those tests commonly performed together?

Panels

In what section would you locate codes to report venipuntures and arterial puntures?

Surgery

A service that is rarely provided, unusual, variable, or new would always require a special report in determining medical appropriateness of the service

True

A surgical pathology specimen that is not listed in the pathology code descriptions should be assigned a code that most closely reflects the physician's work involved compared to other specimens assigned to that code

True

During the evocative suppression testing, the correct codes for the physician's administration of the evocative or suppressing agents are reported depending on the method of administration

True

In Therapeutic Drug Assays (80150-80299), the examination is quantitative

True

Pathologists have specific codes for clinical pathology consultations

True

Services in pathology/laboratory are provided by a physician or by technologists under resposible supervision of a physician

True

The postmortem codes 88000-88099 represent physicain services only

True

There are different codes for Helicobactor pylori depending on the source of the specimen

True

Transfusion Medicine codes are located in the Pathology and Laboratory section

True

When coding chemistry tests, an analyte is measured in multiple specimens from different sources, or in specimens that are obtained at different times, the analyte reported separately for each source and for each specimen

True

Qualitative analysis are defines as:

analysis of a substance in order to ascertain the nature of chemical constituents

A sample tissue of a suspect area can further be divided into which of the following?

block, section

What name is given to cultures for identification of organisms, as well as the identification of sensativities of the organisms to antibiotics?

culture/sensativity

Quantitative analysis is defined as:

determining amounts and proportions of chemical constituents

In the Pathology/Laboratory section of the CPT, drugs are listed by their _______ names

generic

What type of drug test measures the presence of a drug in a specimen?

qualitative

What type of drug test measures the amount of a drug in the specimen?

quantitative

Codes in the Pathology/Laboratory section, Evocation/Suppression Testing include which of the following?

test only