AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1411:

  Kim Khoury is planning a luncheon for the team members and stakeholders on the CPOE implementation to celebrate reaching a major milestone. Which of the following is true?

  A. Acknowledging accomplishments and milestones motivates teams.
  B. Budgets rarely permit these extra expenses.
  C. Celebrations are only appropriate at the close of a project.
  D. Professionals are self-motivated, making celebrations unnecessary.
  A. Acknowledging accomplishments and milestones motivates teams.

• Question 1412:

  Which of the following is a disadvantage of retrospective data collection?

  A. Data are all available.
  B. Fewer data collectors are required.
  C. Deficiencies in documentation can effect reimbursement.
  D. Reviewer bias is reduced.
  C. Deficiencies in documentation can effect reimbursement.

• Question 1413:

  A patient was admitted to the hospital with hemiplegia and aphasia. The hemiplegia and aphasia were resolved before discharge and the patient was diagnosed with cerebral thrombosis. What is the correct coding and sequencing?

  A. hemiplegia; aphasia
  B. cerebral thrombosis
  C. cerebral thrombosis; hemiplegia; aphasia
  D. hemiplegia; cerebral thrombosis; aphasia
  B. cerebral thrombosis

• Question 1414:

  Treatments for sensorineural hearing loss include

  A. cochlear implants.
  B. myringotomy
  C. removal of impacted cerumen
  D. stapedectomy
  A. cochlear implants.

• Question 1415:

  Female, 26 weeks' pregnancy is treated for reduction of fracture performed

  A. 813.44, 79.02
  B. 648.93, 813.44, 79.02
  C. 813.44, V22.2, 79.02
  D. V22.2, 813.44, 79.02
  B. 648.93, 813.44, 79.02

• Question 1416:

  As a general rule, a person making a report in good faith and under statutory command (e.g., on child abuse, communicable diseases, births, deaths, etc.) is

  A. not protected from liability claims.
  B. subject to penalties imposed by federal law.
  C. subject to penalties imposed by state law.
  D. protected.
  D. protected.

• Question 1417:

  The hospital outpatient prospective payment system for Medicare applies to all of the following EXCEPT.

  A. professional services, such as physician fees.
  B. facility reimbursement for outpatient hospital clinic visits.
  C. facility reimbursement for emergency department visits.
  D. facility reimbursement for hospital-based ambulatory surgery.
  A. professional services, such as physician fees.

• Question 1418:

  An accreditation agency counterpart to the Joint Commission for managed care organizations is the

  A. AHRQ.
  B. AHCPR.
  C. IOM.
  D. NCQA.
  D. NCQA.

• Question 1419:

  A basic concept of office layout and workflow is that the

  A. paper and employee move to a predetermined location.
  B. employee moves to the paper.
  C. office layout and workflow should be revised frequently.
  D. paper moves to the employee.
  D. paper moves to the employee.

• Question 1420:

  After your coders helped you rank the reasons for coding errors in the order of their importance, you then plotted the results on the chart above. The results of your work surprise you because A. you expected the coders to put more emphasis on time pressure.

  

  B. you thought limited training was the primary reason for the errors.
  C. the rankings show surprising disagreement on the issue.
  D. the results appear to violate the Pareto principle.
  D. the results appear to violate the Pareto principle.