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The CRIP exam has 240 questions and runs 4 hours.
These 10 free CRIP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Certified Revenue Integrity Professional (CRIP) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A hospital laboratory repeats a serum potassium test on the same day because the original specimen was hemolyzed. How should the repeat test be reported?
Correct answer: D - Do not report the repeat test separately
A hospital may obtain a signed Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage in order to bill a Medicare beneficiary for units of service denied under a Medically Unlikely Edit.
Correct answer: B - False
A Medicare beneficiary receives outpatient diagnostic laboratory services at an IPPS hospital two days before being admitted as an inpatient at that same hospital. How are those laboratory services billed?
Correct answer: D - Bundled into the inpatient claim
During one hospital outpatient encounter a patient receives, in order, hydration, a therapeutic antibiotic infusion, and a chemotherapy infusion through the same IV access. Which service does the facility report as the initial administration?
Correct answer: C - The chemotherapy infusion
A drug's HCPCS descriptor reads "injection, drug X, 25 mg." A hospital outpatient is administered a 150 mg dose. How many units of service should be reported?
Correct answer: B - 6
Under the Medicare laboratory date of service policy, the date of service for a clinical diagnostic laboratory test is generally the date the specimen was collected.
Correct answer: A - True
An inpatient-only procedure is performed emergently on a registered hospital outpatient, who expires before an inpatient admission order is written. How should the hospital report the procedure?
Correct answer: A - Append modifier CA to the procedure
A hospital implants a replacement pacemaker generator supplied at no cost because the manufacturer recalled the original device. Which condition code reports this circumstance?
Correct answer: C - Condition code 50
A physical therapist furnishes a Medicare patient 20 minutes of therapeutic exercise and 20 minutes of manual therapy during a single visit. Both are time-based codes. How many timed units may be billed?
Correct answer: C - 3
A patient is admitted as an inpatient. Before discharge, the utilization review committee determines the stay does not meet inpatient criteria, and no inpatient claim has been submitted. What else is required before condition code 44 may be applied?
Correct answer: A - The treating practitioner must concur and document it
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