AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1651:

  What source or document is considered the "supreme law of the land"?

  A. Bill of Rights
  B. Supreme Court decisions
  C. presidential power
  D. Constitution of the United States
  D. Constitution of the United States

• Question 1652:

  Your hospital takes advantage of the 8/80 exemption for health care facilities. Assuming that no employee worked more than 8 hours in a day, which of the employees listed in the table below will be paid overtime this pay period?

  

  A. employees 101 and 105
  B. employees 101, 102, and 105
  C. employees 101, 104, and 105
  D. employees 101, 103, 104, and 105
  A. employees 101 and 105

• Question 1653:

  The data in the column on the far right were collected when the coders traded records for recoding. This is a common practice used to check The coding supervisor at Bayside Hospital regularly has her coders recode records from the previous week in an effort to improve and monitor coding consistency. The supervisor has collected the data displayed below on four coders.

  

  A. interrater reliability.
  B. intrarater reliability.
  C. interrater validity.
  D. intrarater validity.
  A. interrater reliability.

• Question 1654:

  You stop by an office to meet a friend for lunch. Looking on the desk, you see the grid below: Your friend is trying to

  

  A. plan a conversion.
  B. design a system.
  C. analyze a workflow.
  D. make a decision.
  D. make a decision.

• Question 1655:

  A patient is admitted with shortness of breath and hemoptysis. A chest x-ray revealed patchy infiltrates in the left lung and possible pneumonia. On the third day of hospitalization a bronchoscopy with biopsy was done which revealed a small cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe of the lung. A metastatic lesion in the brain was detected. The principal diagnosis is the

  A. metastatic brain carcinoma.
  B. small cell lung carcinoma.
  C. hemoptysis.
  D. pneumonia.
  B. small cell lung carcinoma.

• Question 1656:

  A 32-year-old patient has a colonoscopy with removal of three polyps by snare. Moderate sedation was used and provided by the physician. The intraservice time was 30 minutes

  A. 45385; 45385-51; 45385-51
  B. 45385; 99144
  C. 45385
  D. 45385, 45385-51, 45385-51,99144
  C. 45385

• Question 1657:

  Which of the following processes is mandatory for health care facilities?

  A. accreditation
  B. certification
  C. AHA registration
  D. licensure
  D. licensure

• Question 1658:

  Release of information without the patient's authorization is permissible in which of the following circumstances?

  A. release to an attorney
  B. release to third-party payers
  C. release to state workers' compensation agencies
  D. release to insurance companies
  C. release to state workers' compensation agencies

• Question 1659:

  Skilled nursing facilities may choose to submit MDS data using RAVEN software, or software purchased commercially through a vendor, provided that the software meets

  A. Joint Commission standards
  B. NHIN standards
  C. HL-7 standards
  D. CMS standards
  D. CMS standards

• Question 1660:

  An indicator about the institution's death rate would be which type?

  A. process
  B. outcome
  C. structure
  D. regulation
  B. outcome