Test Bank For Medical Coding Certification Exam Preparation A Comprehensive Guide Release 2025 Author Cynthia Stewart Chapter 1-21 Chapter 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) A clean claim: A) Guarantees the B) Slows the provider will receive reimbursement payment process
C) Results in accurate and timely reimbursement
D) Releases the payer from the contractual adjudication time frame
2) Accounts receivable, denials, and modifiers are examples of __________ language. A) Provider B) Payer C) Compliance D) Billing 3) Compliance language includes: A) Services, B) Unbundling, procedures, and medical fraud, and abuse terminology
C) Noncovered services, D) Denials, modifiers, medical necessity, and and advanced unbundling beneficiary notices
4) An ICD-10-CM (tenth revision) code represents: A) the demographics B) the procedure
C) the service
D) the diagnosis
5) The following coding habit would be most likely to trigger a payer audit: A) Consistently B) Billing an even C) Consistently D) Consistently billing the billing the same, low distribution of low billing the same, same, low level E/M service level E/M service and high level E/M high level E/M code and consistently billing code service codes service code the same, high level E/M service code 6) The acronym AAPC stands for: A) American Academy B) Academy of of Professional Coders American Physician Coders
C) American D) Academy of Academy of Physician Auditors and Physician Coders Coders