RHIA Exam Prep Questions and Answers
Graded A+
What term is used in reference to objective descriptions of processes, procedures, people, and
other observable objects and activities? ✔✔Data
Which of the following pro
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RHIA Exam Prep Questions and Answers
Graded A+
What term is used in reference to objective descriptions of processes, procedures, people, and
other observable objects and activities? ✔✔Data
Which of the following processes is an ancillary function of the health record? ✔✔Biomedical
Research
What term is used in reference to electronically accessed information that provides physicians
with pertinent health information beyond the health record itself? ✔✔Clinical Practice
Guidelines
To which of the following authorities do hospitals report vital statistics? ✔✔National Vital
Statistics System
An attempt to contain hospital inpatient costs and improve quality by restructuring services is
called: ✔✔Patient-focused care
What organization was established in 1847 to represent the interests of physicians across the
United States? ✔✔American Medical Association
Today, to practice medicine, medical school students must pass a test before they can obtain a:
✔✔License
For healthcare organizations, this modern process began with the adoption of the Minimum
Standards: ✔✔Accreditation
Which process requires the verification of the educational qualifications, licensure status, and
other experience of healthcare professionals who have applied for the privilege of practicing
within a healthcare facility? ✔✔Credentialing
Which of the following is a mechanism that records and examines activity in information
systems? ✔✔Audit controls
Which of the following is the goal of quantitative analysis performed by HIM professionals?
✔✔Identifying deficiencies early so they can be completed
What are LONIC codes used for? ✔✔Identifying test results
While the focus of inpatient data collection is on the principle diagnosis, the focus of outpatient
data collection is on the: ✔✔Reason for encounter
The inpatient data set incorporated into federal law and required for Medicare reporting is the:
✔✔Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
In order to effectively transmit healthcare data between a provider and payer, both parties must
adhere to which electronic data interchange standards? ✔✔X12N
This document is a snapshot of a patient's status and includes everything from social issues to
disease processes as well as critical paths and clinical pathways that focus on a specific disease
process or pathway in a LTCH. ✔✔Care Plan
Which of the following is a component of the Resident Assessment Instrument? ✔✔A standard
Minimum Data Set
Which of the following personnel should be authorized, per hospital policy, to take a physician's
verbal order for the administration of medication? ✔✔Nurse working on the unit where the
patient is located
Who is responsible for ensuring the quality of health record documentation? ✔✔Provider
Of the following, what is the most likely to happen to the health records of a physician's patient
when a physician leaves an office practice? ✔✔It will be retained by the practice
Which health record format is arranged in chronological order with documentation from various
sources intermingled? ✔✔Electronic
Staff disagreements within the health record should be: ✔✔Avoided
Mrs. Bolton is an angry patient who resents her physicians "bossing her around." She refuses to
take a portion of the medications the nurses bring to her pursuant to physician orders and is
verbally abusive to the patient care assistants. Of the following options, the most appropriate way
to document Mrs. Bolton's behavior in the patient health record is: ✔✔Noncompliant and hostile
toward staff
The___is/are used to complete comprehensive assessments and collect information for the
Minimum Data Set for Long-term Care (MDS). ✔✔Resident Assessment Instrument
One technology used for computer-assisted coding is: ✔✔Natural language processing
A barrier to effective computer-assisted coding is the: ✔✔Poor quality of documentation
According to the UHDDS definition, ethnicity should be recorded on a patient record as:
✔✔Spanish origin/Hispanic, non-Spanish origin/non-Hispanic, unknown
A coding supervisor checks coding quality each month by having two or more coders code the
same set of records and then comparing the results. This process addresses the data quality
element of: ✔✔Reliability
A core data set developed by ASTM to communicate a patient's past and current health
information as the patient's transitions from one care setting to another is: ✔✔Continuity of Care
Record
A consumer interested in comparing the performance of health plans should review data from:
✔✔HEDIS
Changes and updates to ICD-9-CM are managed by the ICD-9-CM Coordination and
Maintenance Committee, a federal committee co-chaired by representatives from the NCHS and:
✔✔CMS
A computer software program that supports a coder in assigning correct codes is called a(n):
✔✔Encoder
Diagnosis described as "possible," "probable," "likely," or "rule out" is reported as if present for
which type of patient records? ✔✔Inpatient
Patient has HIV with disseminated candidiasis; what is the correct code assignment? ✔✔042,
112.5
A 65 year old woman was admitted to the hospital. She was diagnosed with septicemia
secondary to staphylococcus aureus and abdominal pain secondary to diverticulitis of the colon.
What is the correct code assignment? ✔✔038.11, 562.11
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