AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 231:

  In the ICD-9-CM classification system, an esophageal stricture due to a burn received in a house fire several years ago would be coded as a(n)

  A. current injury.
  B. late effect.
  C. mechanical complication of an internal prosthetic device.
  D. abnormal reaction of the body to the presence of an internal prosthetic device.
  B. late effect.

• Question 232:

  In order to improve efficiency and productivity, which of the following sequence of steps is most effective?

  A. Break down the work into component activities, assign personnel, and delegate authority.
  B. Delegate authority, assign personnel, and define individual job duties.
  C. Know the objective; assign personnel and group activities into proper organizational units.
  D. Know the objective; break down the work into component activities, and group activities into proper organizational units.
  D. Know the objective; break down the work into component activities, and group activities into proper organizational units.

• Question 233:

  In order to alter the facility's health record format to achieve a record that is strictly chronological, the committee would recommend a(n)

  A. integrated medical record.
  B. universal chart order.
  C. problem-oriented medical record.
  D. source-oriented medical record.
  A. integrated medical record.

• Question 234:

  Accounts Receivable (A/R) refers to

  A. cases that have not yet been paid.
  B. the amount the hospital was paid.
  C. cases that have been paid.
  D. denials that have been returned to the hospital.
  A. cases that have not yet been paid.

• Question 235:

  In the RFP, you have asked for information regarding the amount of time that a vendor has been in business and the number of installations of the product under consideration. If you want to review this information, you would go to the section.

  A. functional specifications.
  B. organizational profile.
  C. vendor information.
  D. licensing and contractual details.
  C. vendor information.

• Question 236:

  You are selecting the database model for your new information system's database. You ha chosen the one that is structurally independent, is easy to use and manage, and has a s database management system. What have you chosen?

  A. network
  B. relational
  C. hierarchical
  D. bus
  B. relational

• Question 237:

  Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node biopsy

  A. 38570
  B. 38780
  C. 49323
  D. 38589
  A. 38570

• Question 238:

  After reviewing the following excerpt from CPT, code 27646 would be interpreted as

  

  A. 27646 radical resection of tumor, bone; tibia and fibula.
  B. 27646 radical resection of tumor, bone; fibula.
  C. 27646 radical resection of tumor, bone; fibula or tibia.
  D. 27646 radical resection of tumor, bone; fibula, talus or calcaneus.
  B. 27646 radical resection of tumor, bone; fibula.

• Question 239:

  According to the Federal Register, the definition of a "new" patient when assigning a CPT Evaluation and Management (medical visit) code to a Medicare hospital outpatient under the prospective payment system is a patient that has

  A. not seen the physician within the last 3 years.
  B. not seen the physician within the last 5 years.
  C. not already been assigned a medical record number.
  D. never seen the physician before.
  C. not already been assigned a medical record number.

• Question 240:

  Female patient has a percutaneous needle biopsy of the left breast lesion in the lower outer quadrant. Following the biopsy frozen section results, the physician followed this with an excisional removal of the same lesion.

  A. 19100; 19125
  B. 19100; 19120-LT
  C. 19120-LT
  D. 19100; 19120; 19120
  C. 19120-LT