AHIMA AHIMA Certifications RHIA Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  You are providing an educational session to new hires at your hospital. You tell the new employees that hospital records may be used as evidence in court even though hearsay laws bar the use of most evidence that does not represent personal knowledge of the witness. That's because the hospital record

  A. is written rather than spoken.

  B. was kept in the regular course of business.

  C. has not been tampered with in any way.

  D. is accurate and complete.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 102:

  A patient's husband slipped and fell in your HIM reception area and now he is suing the facility. You have to prepare detailed written answers to a long list of questions and send them to your hospital attorney. You will spend the afternoon working on

  A. affidavits.

  B. allocutions.

  C. interrogatories.

  D. depositions.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 103:

  The MS-DRG weight in a particular case is 2.0671 and the hospital's payment rate is $3,027. H much would the hospital receive as reimbursement in this case?

  A. $3,027.00

  B. $5,094.10

  C. $6,257.11

  D. $ 960.00

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 104:

  As the Information Security Officer at your facility, you have been asked to provide examples o the physical safeguards used to manage data security measures throughout the organization Which of the following would you provide?

  A. audit controls

  B. entity authentication

  C. chain-of-trust partner agreements

  D. workstation use and location

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 105:

  You are starting your new job as the sole HIM professional at a small psychiatric practice. The practice uses DSM for billing purposes. You find this "theoretically" reasonable because DSM

  A. is a widely used and accepted classification system.

  B. codes are also valid ICD-9-CM codes.

  C. codes are also valid CPT codes.

  D. is the industry standard for psychiatric billing systems.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 106:

  The Credentialing Committee discovered the problems with Dr. Hernandez's hip replacements by

  

  A. sampling and reviewing Dr. Hernandez's patient records.

  B. reviewing Dr. Hernandez's quality profile.

  C. querying the National Physician Data Bank.

  D. interviewing the Chief of Surgery.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 107:

  In preparing the retention schedule for health records, the most concrete guidance in determining when records may be destroyed will be

  A. the average readmission rate for the facility.

  B. the available options for inactive records.

  C. the statute of limitations in your state.

  D. Joint Commission and AOA standards regarding minimum retention periods.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 108:

  When checking the census data at South Beach Women's Center, you see that just yesterday, there were four sets of triplets, five sets of twins and eight single births. Yesterday, South Beach Women's Center had

  A. 17 deliveries.

  B. 25 deliveries.

  C. 30 deliveries.

  D. 39 deliveries.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 109:

  Community Hospital Administration decided to change the number of adult and children beds from 300 to 375 effective July 1. The total number of inpatient service days for adults and children for the year was 111,963. What was the percentage of occupancy rate for adults and children for the entire year?

  A. 0.9%

  B. 45.4%

  C. 90.8%

  D. 91.0%

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 110:

  Sun City reported 12 cases of chronic heart disease in a population of 8,000 in'2004. In 2008, S City reported there were still 12 cases of chronic heart disease, but its population had decreased 6,000. This represents an increase in the

  A. prevalence of chronic heart disease in Sun City.

  B. incidence of chronic heart disease in Sun City.

  C. reliability of reporting chronic heart disease in Sun City.

  D. occurrence of chronic heart disease in Sun City.

  Correct Answer: A