Professional misconduct or demonstration of an unreasonable lack of skill with the result of injury, loss, or damage to the patient is

Two codes that could NOT have both been reasonably performed during a single patient encounter are referred to as:

mutually exclusive codes. not medically necessary codes. comprehensive codes. component codes.

Following a motor vehicle accident, Maria Links was brought to the ER with low back pain and back spasms. She was medicated with muscle relaxants, but the pain and spasms did not decrease. The physician ordered an MRI, which showed a herniated lumbar intervertebral disk. Select the appropriate ICD-9-CM code

722.10 Displacement of lumbar intervertebral disk without myelopathy 724.8 Back spasm 839.20 Displacement of lumbar vertebra 724.2 Low back pain A) 724.2 B) 724.8 C) 839.20 D) 722.10