CCDS EXAM WITH ALL CORRECT

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CCDS EXAM WITH ALL CORRECT

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Question: A patient is admitted from the emergency department

(ED) with a diagnosis of weakness and anemia. After admission and further treatment with packed red blood cells (PRBC), GI consult, and endoscopy, the physician includes the following diagnoses in the

discharge summary: anemia, suspected bleeding gastric ulcer, and

GERD. What would be the most appropriate principle diagnosis?

• Bleeding gastric ulcer
• Anemia

C. GERD

• Weakness

Correct Answer: A. Bleeding gastric ulcer

Question: A patient is admitted with new-onset seizures. Head CT

reveals a mass in the occipital region. The physician documents possible brain tumor, and the patient is transferred to another hospital for further workup. What would be the most appropriate principal diagnosis based upon this documentation?

• Seizure

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• Neoplasm of occipital region
• Head mass
• Head tumor

Correct Answer: B. Neoplasm of occipital region

Question: A hospital's base rate or blended rate is:

Calculated annually

Dependent upon indirect costs for graduate medical education and new technology

Adjusted based upon number of low-income patients cared for

Not adjusted based upon capital expenses

• 1 and 2
• 2 and 3
• 1, 2, and 3
• 1, 2, 3, and 4

Correct Answer: C. 1, 2, and 3

Question: The final MS-DRG assigned to a patient's medical record

should:

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• Reflect the amount of time the physician spent with the patient
• Depend upon the patient's length of stay
• Be assigned by the physician
• Reflect the severity of illness (SOI) and resource consumption of

the patient's care

Correct Answer: D. Reflect the severity of illness (SOI) and

resource consumption of the patient's care

Question: A patient is admitted from the emergency department

with the diagnosis of acute respiratory failure due to overdose of pain medication and an aspiration pneumonia. What is the principal diagnosis?

• Acute respiratory failure
• Aspiration pneumonia
• Poisoning
• Adverse effect of medication

Correct Answer: C. Poisoning

Question: A patient is admitted with pneumonia, stage 1 chronic

renal failure, chronic anemia, and COPD. While hospitalized the patient receives IV antibiotics, inhalers, oxygen, IV fluids at 50mL/hr, and iron tablets. Keeping the guidelines for coding of secondary diagnoses in mind, which condition should be coded?

• Pneumonia only
• Pneumonia and COPD only

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• Pneumonia, COPD, and anemia
• All of the conditions should be coded

Correct Answer: D. All of the conditions should be coded

Question: Which of the following is an example of a hospital-

acquired condition?

• Fat embolism
• IV phlebitis
• Pneumonia
• Fractured ulna

Correct Answer: D. Fractured ulna

Question: Which of the following is an example of documentation

that would meet the present on admission criteria for coding?

• A diagnosis that is indicated in the history and physical and ruled

out in the discharge summary

• A diagnosis found in a previous medical record
• A diagnosis that is listed as possible in the history and physical
• An acute condition identified on the third day of admission

Correct Answer: C. A diagnosis that is listed as possible in the

history and physical

Question: A patient is admitted with abdominal pain and the history

and physical indicated a diagnosis of probable colon cancer. On day