A patient was taken to the endoscopy suite. The flexible endoscope was passed from the mouth into the
esophagus and continued into the stomach and into the duodenal bulb. Based on this documentation,
what CPT code should be selected to represent this procedure? - Answers 43235
Which statement is false? - Answers
Patient with rectal bleeding. Physician performs Colonscopy with removal of two polyps all by snare. -
Answers "45378, 45385"
35 year old female has a ruptured appendix with generalized peritonitis. Surgeon performs an
appendectomy. - Answers 44960
6 year old with hypertrophy of tonsils and adenoids. Physician performs tonsillectomy and
adenoidectomy. - Answers 42820
65 year old female with abdominal pain and nausea and vomiting. Physician performs an EGD with
biopsy of antrum of stomach is performed. Polyp was found at the esophagogastric junction and was
removed by laser technique. - Answers 43270
Which statement is false? - Answers Patient with epigastric abdominal pain and dysphagia. Physician
performs EGD with two biopsies of esophagus and stomach. CPT 43239 is reported twice.
32 year old with an incarcerated umbilical hernia. Surgeon repairs the incarcerated umbilical hernia with
open repair with mesh. - Answers 49587
Cholecystectomy and needle biopsy of liver - Answers 47562, 47001
3 year old patient with left recurrent inguinal hernia. Physician repairs the hernia via laparoscopy. -
Answers 49651
75 year old patient with rectal bleeding. Surgeon performs a colonoscopy thru the colostomy. Patient
was found to have diverticulosis of colon with bleeding. Surgeon controls the bleeding with plasma
coagulator. - Answers 45382
Patient with diarrhea. Physician performs flexible sigmoidoscopy with rectal biopsy. - Answers 45331
AND 45330