AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 651:

  Your facility has been working to develop a strong performance improvement model and, have come up with the model shown. They ask if you see anything missing from model. You tell them they

  

  A. are missing a step requiring regular employee input into the process.
  B. are missing a step requiring reporting to the board of directors.
  C. are missing a step requiring ongoing monitoring and reassessment.
  D. aren't missing any steps; the model is a good one.
  C. are missing a step requiring ongoing monitoring and reassessment.

• Question 652:

  The outpatient coding staff has been working to improve coding accuracy. The standard for the number of cases that must be coded has been raised four times in the past year. The staff states that "the more cases that must be coded, the greater the error rate will be for the corresponding time period." The department keeps statistics on both the numbers of cases coded and the corresponding error rate. What is the best QI tool for testing the coding staff's theory?

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

• Question 653:

  The Human Resources Department provides training for new supervisors. It includes discuss' of the Equal Pay Act, which was passed to eliminate discrimination based on which of following?

  A. merit of the employee
  B. seniority of the employee
  C. employee gender
  D. personal productivity, such as in an incentive compensation system
  C. employee gender

• Question 654:

  Oxygen is carried in the blood

  A. bound to hemoglobin.
  B. in the form of carbonic acid
  C. plasma
  D. serum
  A. bound to hemoglobin.

• Question 655:

  The graph below can best be described as

  

  A. sequential.
  B. multimodal.
  C. substitutional
  D. erratic.
  B. multimodal.

• Question 656:

  A patient is on Coumadin therapy. Which of the following tests is commonly ordered to monitor the patient's Coumadin levels?

  A. bleeding time.
  B. blood smear
  C. partial thromboplastin time
  D. prothrombin time
  D. prothrombin time

• Question 657:

  Patient comes into the outpatient department at.the local hospital for an MRI of the cervical spine with contrast. Patient is status post automobile accident.

  A. 72156
  B. 72142
  C. 72149
  D. 72126
  B. 72142

• Question 658:

  Patient presents to the operating room where a 3.2 cm malignant lesion of the shoulder was excised and repaired with simple sutures. A 2.0 cm benign lesion of the cheek was excised and was repaired with a rotation skin graft.

  A. 11604; 11442; 14040; 12001
  B. 14040; 11604
  C. 15002; 15120
  D. 17264; 17000; 12001
  B. 14040; 11604

• Question 659:

  Mark Beck is a new graduate preparing for an interview. In school, he had the opportunity to role-play a technique which requires applicants to give specific examples of how they have performed a specific task or handled a specific problem in the past. This technique is becoming more popular, and is known as:

  A. audition interview.
  B. behavioral interview.
  C. structured interview.
  D. targeted interview.
  B. behavioral interview.

• Question 660:

  A patient is seen by a surgeon who determines that an emergency procedure is necessary. Identify the modifier that may be reported to indicate that the deciion to do surgery was made on this office visit.

  A. -25.
  B. -55.
  C. -57
  D. -58
  C. -57