AHIMA RHIA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

AHIMA RHIA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 81:

  At Great Plains Regional Hospital, record processing takes approximately 18 minutes. If there are 15,620 discharges for the month, how many personnel hours are needed for this volume of work?

  A. 2,891
  B. 4,686
  C. 5,496
  D. 3,394
  B. 4,686

• Question 82:

  A patient is admitted for a diagnostic workup for cachexia. The final diagnosis is malignant neoplasm of lung with metastasis.

  A. Y
  B. N
  C. U
  D. W
  A. Y

• Question 83:

  In preparation for an HER, you are conducting a total facility inventory of all forms currently used. You must name each form for bar coding and indexing into a document management system. The unnamed document in front of you includes a microscopic description of tissue excised during surgery. The document type you are most likely to give to this form is

  A. recovery room record.
  B. pathology report.
  C. operative report.
  D. discharge summary.
  B. pathology report.

• Question 84:

  CPT provides Level I modifiers to explain all of the following situations EXCEPT

  A. when a service or procedure is partially reduced or eliminated at the physician's discretion.
  B. when one surgeon provides only postoperative services.
  C. when a patient sees a surgeon for follow-up care after surgery.
  D. when the same laboratory test is repeated multiple times on the same day.
  C. when a patient sees a surgeon for follow-up care after surgery.

• Question 85:

  The purpose of the notice of privacy practices is to

  A. notify the patient of uses of PHI.
  B. notify patient of audits.
  C. report incidents to the 01G.
  D. notify researchers of allowable data use.
  A. notify the patient of uses of PHI.

• Question 86:

  Now that the EHR has been fully implemented, you are ready to move old records to base storage. You are ordering shelving for those old paper files. You have 18,000 records, they average three per filing inch. The shelf units you have

  selected have six shelves that will hold 34 in per shelf. You will have to plan for a 20% expansion rate to accommodate miscellaneous pa records over the next 10 years. How many shelving units should you order?

  A. 30
  B. 31
  C. 35
  D. 36
  D. 36

• Question 87:

  Using the information in the table below, calculate the average percentage of patients for the entire year who waited longer than an acceptable amount of waiting time. (The sample size for each month's data is 100.)

  

  A. 3.1%
  B. 3.6%
  C. 3.7%
  D. 4.0%
  C. 3.7%

• Question 88:

  The ideal consent for medical treatment obtained by the physician is

  A. expressed.
  B. informed.
  C. implied.
  D. verbal.
  B. informed.

• Question 89:

  Trauma patient is rushed to the operating room with multiple injuries. The patient had his spleen, removed due to massive rupture with repair of lacerated diaphragm.

  A. 38115; 39501
  B. 38120; 39599
  C. 38102; 39540
  D. 38100; 39501
  D. 38100; 39501

• Question 90:

  Which of the following statements best describes the scalar or chain of command principle?

  A. Effective organization is made up of people who perform the work assigned.
  B. There is a clear flow of authority from superior to subordinate throughout the organization.
  C. The objectives of a business or a group of functions within the business must be clearly defined and understood.
  D. The number of subordinates under the immediate supervision of the supervisor should be limited.
  B. There is a clear flow of authority from superior to subordinate throughout the organization.