Puzzles CCO Crossword Puzzle

Each week CCO will post a new medical coding/billing related crossword for you to do for fun & education. We hope you enjoy them as a CCO Free Forum Member!
We will post the answers each Friday.
Have fun!

Crossword #1

 

[AlyceW_61282]

LOVE THIS IDEA!!! CCO is great for anyone interested in Medical Coding!!!

 

[Lori]

PUZZLE Questions/Answers​

1. CEU, What is needed to maintain a certification?
2. AAPC, Which credentialing agency does the CPC exam?
3. Two, How many attempts does an examinee get to pass the CPC?
4. HCPCS, One of three manuals needed for the CPC exam?
5. Blitz, What does CCO sell for exam prep?
6. BHAT, What does CCO recommend you do to your manuals for an exam?
7. August, When does the ICD manual come out each year?
8. Errata, How are changes to manuals made after publication?
9. Medicine, One of the major sections of the CPT?
10. Fifteen, How many appendix sections are in the CPT?
11. Circle, What symbol in the CPT indicates a new code?
12. Index, Never code from just this?
13. Tabular, Always verify the code selected in the?
14. Closed, If a fracture is not indicated as opened or closed default to?
15. Acute, If you are coding a patient with both a chronic & acute condition & you are reporting both which is reported first?
16. One, Completion of the CCO Intern program counts as how many years of experience?
17. Two, How many years does a CPC have to submit CEUs to maintain their credential?
18. EHR, What a health record is sometimes called?Two, If a provider does not document what type of diabetes a patient has a coder will default to which type?
19. Two, If a provider does not document what type of diabetes a patient has a coder will default to which type?
20. NEC, What abbreviation represents when a medical record provides details for which a specific code does not exist in ICD-10?