AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1191:

  Anxiety with depression

  A. 300.11, 311
  B. 300.4
  C. 309.28
  D. 300.00, 311
  B. 300.4

• Question 1192:

  What was the gross (hospital) death rate at Happy Valley Hospital last year? Happy Valley Hospital discharged 6069 adults/children and 545 newborns last year. A total of 1 adults/children and 1279 newborns were seen in the emergency department. Information on deaths at Happy Valley last year is listed below.

  

  A. 3.8%
  B. 5.4%
  C. 5.5%
  D. 5.6%
  C. 5.5%

• Question 1193:

  One of your first tasks as the new Manager of Health Information Services is to review the department policy and procedure manual. You have determined that several policy statements are incongruent with appropriate current employee practices. Proper management conventions require

  A. leaving the policy as written in the manual.
  B. contacting the hospital attorney to decide what action to take.
  C. enforcing the existing policy.
  D. revising the policy appropriately and documenting the date of the change.
  D. revising the policy appropriately and documenting the date of the change.

• Question 1194:

  Documentation found in acute care health records should include core measure quality indications required for compliance with Medicare's Health Care Quality Improvement Program (HCQIP). A typical indicator for pneumonia patients is

  A. beta blocker at discharge.
  B. blood culture before first antibiotic received.
  C. early administration of aspirin.
  D. discharged on antithrombotic.
  B. blood culture before first antibiotic received.

• Question 1195:

  Thrombocytopenia, purpura; splenectomy

  A. 287.4, 41.5
  B. 287.8, 41.5
  C. 287.9, 41.42
  D. 287.30, 41.5
  D. 287.30, 41.5

• Question 1196:

  Most of the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients occurs in the

  A. ascending colon.
  B. esophagus.
  C. small intenstine.
  D. stomach.
  C. small intenstine.

• Question 1197:

  Which interdisciplinary committee is most likely to be charged with the responsibility for monitoring trends in delinquent health record percentages?

  A. Health Record Committee.
  B. Utilization Review Committee.
  C. Risk Management Committee.
  D. Joint Conference Committee.
  A. Health Record Committee.

• Question 1198:

  Mary and Sue are both employed as medical transcriptionists at ABC Hospital. They are able set their own work hours provided the department is covered by one of them during re office hours. This kind of work arrangement is referred to as:

  A. compressed work week.
  B. job sharing.
  C. flex time.
  D. telecommuting.
  C. flex time.

• Question 1199:

  The Director of the Health Information Services Department has asked that the supervisor pf coding institute a method to monitor the accuracy of coding. What method would be the most effective approach?

  A. Perform a 100% review of one of the employees' work each day.
  B. Review a sample of each employee's work annually.
  C. Review a random sample of each employee's work monthly.
  D. Have each employee check each other's work and report any problems to the supervisor.
  C. Review a random sample of each employee's work monthly.

• Question 1200:

  Fracture of the medial malleolus due to fall down steps. Fracture treated with closed reduction.

  A. 824.1, E880.9, 79.05
  B. 824.0, E880.9, 79.06
  C. 824.0, 79.09
  D. 824.1, E880.1, 79.05
  B. 824.0, E880.9, 79.06