A 58-year-old man with an enlarging right hydrocele is here for surgical repair. He is taken to the operating room where the hydrocele was enucleated from the skin in dartos fashion and delivered into the wound. It was skeletonized at the equator and then was opened and drained. Excess hydrocele sac tissue was excised with electrocautery. It was then wrapped backward around the spermatic cord and sewn there so it would not reform. There were a few pockets also opened up and skeletonized. The testicle was replaced in the scrotum. What CPT® code is reported for this service?

A 24-year-old woman developed a keloid scar as a result of a third degree burn on the left upper arm. What ICD-10-CM code(s) is/are reported?

Which code books do outpatient coders focus on learning?

A 6-year-old male suffered a fracture after falling off the monkey bars at school. He fell on an outstretched hand and suffered a transcondylar fracture of the left humerus. After prep and drape, a manipulation was done to achieve anatomic reduction. Once the joint was adequately reduced, pins were placed through the skin distally and proximally into the bone to maintain excellent fixation and anatomic reduction. The pins were bent, trimmed and covered with a sterile dressing and a posterior splint was placed on the patient’s arm. What CPT® code is reported?

Which diagnosis below would be considered a combination code?

A patient is seen in the physician’s office for a 2,400,000 U injection of Bicillin L-A. What code represents this drug and the units given?

What is the definition of medical coding?

What does ICD-10-CM guideline I.B.1 state to use when locating and assigning a diagnosis code?

A patient had a spontaneous complete abortion three days ago. She returns to the ED and is bleeding. After the ED provider examines her, she still has retained products of conception (POC). What ICD-10-CM code is reported for this encounter?

A patient is admitted to surgery to treat an open fracture to the shaft of the right humerus and a simple closed fracture of the left tibia following a side-by-side ATV accident. What ICD-10-CM codes are reported?