Corrections   (7/2016)
Certified   Coding   Specialist   (CCS)   Exam   Preparation,   Sixth   Edition
AHIMA   Product   #   AC400414
 Practice   Questions,   Question   14   (page   247)
Rationale   should   read,   “Excludes   note   1   directs   the   coder   to   D17.0
‐ D17.3”   (HHS   2016,
Section   I.A.12a,   10)
 Practice   Questions,   Question   18   (pages   30   and   248)
Code   I85.10
should   be   replaced   with   code   I85.11
in   the   code   box   and   in   answer   choice
D.
Answer   choice   D   is   still   the   correct   answer   for   this   question.
 Practice   Questions,   Question   25   (page   30)
In   answer   choice   c,   add   code   31632.
It   should   read,   “31628,   31632,   31632.”
 Practice   Questions,   Question   68   (page   44)
In   answer   choice   c,   add   code   I12.0.
It   should   read,   “I50.9,   heart   failure,   unspecified,
I12.0,   Hypertensive   chronic   kidney   disease   with   stage   5   chronic   kidney   disease   or   end   stage   renal   disease,   and   N18.6,   End   stage   renal   disease.”
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Practice   Questions,   Patient   10   (pages   81   and   260)
The   pathology   report   should   state,   “Liver   biopsy,   metastatic   lung   cancer.”   Rationale   should   have   this   addition:   In   this   case   the   patient   is   admitted   to   investigate   a   mass   in   the   liver.
The   patient   has   a   history   of   lung   cancer.
The   pathology   report   states   that   the   patient   has   a   metastatic   lung   cancer   in   the   liver,   and   that   is   where   the   specimen   was   removed   from   (Leon ‐ Chisen   2015,   448 ‐ 451.)
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Practice   Questions,   Patient   11   (pages   82   and   261)
Code   PP1   should   be   0QS604Z   and   description   should   read   “neck”   of   femur   (Leon ‐ Chisen
2015,   489 ‐ 90).
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Practice   Exam   1,   Question   25   (page   119)
The   word   "severe"   should   be   added   to   the   question   text.
The   stem   should   now   read:   " If   a   patient   is   admitted   with   pneumococcal   pneumonia   and   severe   pneumococcal   sepsis,   the   coder   should:"

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Practice   Exam   1,   Question   29   (page   120)
Answer   choice   d   should   read,   “There   is   not   a   HCPCS   Level   II   code   or   a   current   CPT   level
III   code”
 Practice   Exam   1,   Question   42   (page   123)
Answer   choice   d   for   question   42   should   read   “BF031ZZ,   Intraoperative   cholangiogram,
Plain   Radiography   of   Gallbladder   and   Bile   Ducts   using   Low   Osmolar   Contrast   and
0FT40ZZ,   Resection,   gallbladder,   open   approach.”
 Practice   Exam   1,   Question   46   (page   124)
Answer   choice   c   should   read   “19081   and   19082”
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Practice   Exam   1,   Question   61   (page   270)
In   the   rationale,   J056   should   read   “J0561.”
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Practice   Exam   1,   Question   71   (page   271)
Answer   choice   a   should   read,   “MS ‐ DRG   193   (weight=   3.0)   simple   pneumonia…   results   in   higher   reimbursement   than   MS ‐ DRG   195   (weight=   2.0).”
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Practice   Exam   1,   Patient   3   (pages   144—146   and   276)
In   the   Emergency   Department   Record,   the   Impression   is   recorded   as   a   fracture   of   the   right   humerus,   but   the   discharge   diagnosis   states   that   there   is   a   fracture   of   the   left   humerus.
This   should   be   changed   to   "right"   in   the   discharge   diagnosis.
In   the   answer   key,   F17.200
should   be   deleted   and   replaced   with   F17.210
(HHS   2016,   Section   III,   99–
100).The
wording   “extended   problem   focused”   should   be   deleted   and   replaced   with
“expanded   problem   focused”
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Practice   Exam   1,   Patient   7   (pages   159—165   and   279)
Code   I97.88
should   be   replaced   with   code   I97.791
for   a   greater   level   of   specificity   in   coding   the   myocardial   infarction.
Code   description   should   read,   “Other   intraoperative   cardiac   functional   disturbances   during   other   surgery.”
 Practice   Exam   2,   Question   31   (pages   191   and   284)
Answer   choice   d,   49657,   is   the   correct   answer.
 Practice   Exam   2,   Question   32   (pages   191   and   284)
The   answer   key   states   that   the   correct   answer   is   b,   but   lists   code   50593,   which   is   answer   choice   d.
The   rationale   is   correct,   but   the   answer   choice   should   be   d.
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Practice   Exam   2,   Patient   5   (pages   217—235   and   293)
The   documentation   inconsistently   refers   to   the   injured   foot   as   the   left   foot   in   the
Microbiology   and   Radiology   reports.
The   injured   foot   should   be   the   right   foot,   and   the   answer   key   correctly   reflects   this.