AHIMA AHIMA Certifications RHIA Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  The file clerks in your department's main file area report they are able to locate 400 out of 450 requested records during the past month. There are a total of 4,500 records in the main file. What is the area's accuracy rate?

  A. 1.1%

  B. 8.9%

  C. 10.0%

  D. 88.9%

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 32:

  How long will it take to complete the project described below?

  

  A. 12 days

  B. 17 days

  C. 20 days

  D. 29 days

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 33:

  You supervise five clerical employees who will be moving when a new wing of your facility completed. When you meet with the architect to plan their space, you will ask for

  A. 200 square feet of space for your clerical staff.

  B. 250 square feet of space for your clerical staff.

  C. 300 square feet of space for your clerical staff.

  D. 350 square feet of space for your clerical staff.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 34:

  You are conducting an educational session on benchmarking. You tell your audience that the to benchmarking is to use the comparison to

  A. implement your QI process.

  B. make recommendations for improvement.

  C. improve your department's processes.

  D. compare your department with another.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 35:

  In conducting an educational session for your staff about implementing a benchmarking program, you tell your staff that when an organization uses benchmarking, it is important compare your facility's outcomes to

  A. nationally known facilities.

  B. larger facilities.

  C. facilities within your corporation.

  D. facilities with superior performance.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 36:

  During the work sampling of a file clerk's activity, it is noted that the employee is speaking on the telephone during 76 of 300 observations. How much of the employee's time is spent on the phone if the employee works 7 hours a day?

  A. 1.77 hours

  B. 3.28%

  C. 3.94 hours

  D. 9.2%

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 37:

  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

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 38:

  The correspondence section of your department receives an average of 50 requests per day for release of information. It takes an average of 30 minutes to fulfill each request. Using 6.5 productive hours per day as your standard, calculate the staffing needs for the correspondence section.

  A. 3.8 FTE

  B. 2.5 FTE

  C. 3 FTE

  D. 4 FTE

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 39:

  If a time standard is determined from sample observations to be 2.50 minutes per record for coding emergency room records, what is the daily standard for the number of records coded when a 15% fatigue factor is allowed? The coder works 7.5 hours per day.

  A. 153 records per day

  B. 180 records per day

  C. 192 records per day

  D. 200 records per day

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 40:

  Everyone in the Health Information Department has been working overtime to complete a major record conversion. The supervisor will have to plan for overtime pay for all personnel who are not

  A. hourly employees.

  B. salaried exempt employees.

  C. salaried nonexempt employees.

  D. temporary employees.

  Correct Answer: B