Chapter 11
Chapter Eleven Reading Assignment
HCPCS is a coding system developed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formally Heath Care Finance Administration or HCFA) in 1983 to report temporary professional services, procedures and supplies provided by physicians and supply companies not available in CPT. Generally these codes are used by non-physician providers.
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Chapter Eleven Homework
Provide the best answer to the following HCPCS questions.
1. What does HCPCS stand for and who wrote and maintains the coding manual?
2. HCPCS Level II codes includes what services not represented in CPT?
3. What is the correct code for 200 mg of Meperidine HCL?
4. What is the correct HCPCS level II code for a surgical tray?
5. What is the HCPCS level II code for a knee orthosis, without knee joint, rigid, custom fabricated?
6. What is the HCPCS level II code for mesh used during a hernia repair via laparatomy?
7. What HCPCS modifier would be used to show that a Medicare waiver is on file in the patient’s file?
8. What is the HCPCS level II code for the oral administration of gamma globulin?
9. What is the correct HCPCS level II code for the injection of 2,400,000 units of penicillin G benzathine?
10. What HCPCS level II code is used for screening colonoscopy for high risk patient?