What's Your E/M Coding IQ?

Take the 5-question quiz (created from our Making Sense of E/M Rules workshop curriculum) to find out.

1. Where can you locate the global days assigned to all procedure codes?

CPT® manual
CMS Final Rule for physician services
NCCI Edits
FS Relative Value Files

2. Which set of guidelines is most beneficial for a general surgeon?

1995 Documentation Guidelines
1997 Documentation Guidelines
Both 1995 and 1997 Documentation Guidelines
Neither, general surgeons do not perform E/M services

3. Which system in the exam component is given credit for the statement “extremities: no edema”?

Musculoskeletal
Cardiovascular
Constitutional
Lymphatic

4. Which of the statements is true regarding medical decision making?

MDM must be one of the components met when selecting an established patient E/M code.
When billing for an X-ray interpretation, the provider is not given credit for two data points.
A change in the patient's prescription is required for prescription drug management
The table of risk is used to determine the amount of data collected.

5. Which Medicare Administrative Contractor does not provide an E/M Audit tool for providers?

National Government Services
First Coast Service Options
Highmark Medicare Services
Trailblazer Health Enterprise