AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 281:

  It takes twice as long to perform Service C, so the doctors decided Service C should count as two services for the purpose of calculating workload. If Service C counts twice as much as Service A or Service B, then the physician who provides the most services was Doctor The physicians at Sunset Shore Clinic reported the following statistics last Tuesday.

  

  A. Truba.
  B. Wooley.
  C. Howe.
  D. Masters.
  A. Truba.

• Question 282:

  Patient comes in for a percutaneous needle biopsy of the thyroid gland.

  A. 60000
  B. 60270
  C. 60699
  D. 60100
  D. 60100

• Question 283:

  You are walking around the facility to identify any privacy and security issues. You walk onto the 6W nursing unit and are able to watch the nurse entering confidential patient information. How can you best improve the privacy of the patient's health information?

  A. Ask the nurse to type the data at another computer.
  B. Turn the computer screen so that the public cannot see it.
  C. Give the nurse additional training.
  D. none of the above
  B. Turn the computer screen so that the public cannot see it.

• Question 284:

  You want to construct a data display for a frequency distribution. You will use a

  A. frequency polygon or histogram.
  B. frequency polygon or bar chart.
  C. line graph or histogram.
  D. line graph or bar chart.
  A. frequency polygon or histogram.

• Question 285:

  The board of directors of a 400-bed women's hospital receives a report of key quality indicator results on a periodic basis. The report always includes the quarterly cesarean section rate and has for many years. This recent period they have seen a rise in the rate and want to know if this is significant. What is the best Q1 tool for this purpose?

  A. control chart
  B. Pareto chart
  C. run chart
  D. scatter diagram
  A. control chart

• Question 286:

  David was experiencing chronic fatigue and was experiencing flulike symptoms. Blood testing indicated that he had hepatitis C. A percutaneous liver biopsy was performed to determine the stage of the disease.

  

  A. 070.51,487.1,780.79,50.12
  B. 070.41, 50.11
  C. 070.51,487.1, 50.11
  D. 070.51, 50.11
  D. 070.51, 50.11

• Question 287:

  As a new HIM manager of an acute care facility, you have been asked to update the facility's policy for a physician's verbal orders in accordance with Joint Commission standards and state law. Your first area of concern is the qualifications of those individuals in your facility who have been authorized to record verbal orders. For this information, you will consult

  A. Consolidated Manual for Hospitals
  B. Federal Register
  C. Policy and Procedure Manual
  D. Hospital Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations
  D. Hospital Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations

• Question 288:

  Adding the UCL (upper control limit) and LCL (lower control limit) to the chart ?

  

  A. control chart.
  B. frequency distribution.
  C. run chart.
  D. variation graph.
  A. control chart.

• Question 289:

  Septicemia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Patient also was admitted with septic shock and decubitus ulcer of the sacrum. Patient had a central line inserted and infusion of drotrecogin alfa.

  A. 038.19, 785.59, 707.02, 38.91
  B. 038.11, V09.0, 707.03, 995.92, 785.52, 38.93, 00.11
  C. 707.00, 038.11, 785.59, 38.93, 00.11
  D. 038.11, 755.59, 995.92, 38.93
  B. 038.11, V09.0, 707.03, 995.92, 785.52, 38.93, 00.11

• Question 290:

  Which of the following statements demonstrates a violation of protected health information?

  A. "Yes, Mr. Smith is in room 222. I will transfer your call."
  B. Physician's office staff calls centralized scheduling and says, "Dr. Smith wants to perform a bunionectomy on Mary Jones next Tuesday."
  C. "Mary, at work yesterday I saw that Susan had a hysterectomy."
  D. Dr. Jones tells a nurse on the floor to give Ms. Brown Demerol for her pain.
  C. "Mary, at work yesterday I saw that Susan had a hysterectomy."