RHIA Online Practice Questions and Answers

You are preparing data from a series of weight loss studies for display. The data collected during the study is as follows: If you want to allow. the reader to compare the results of Group A with those of Group B on one graphic display, your best choice would be to construct a

A. bar chart.

B. line graph.

C. histogram.

D. frequency polygon.

The ______________ is a statement sent to the provider to explain payments made by third party payers.

A. remittance advice.

B. advance beneficiary notice.

C. attestation statement.

D. acknowledgement notice.

The key diagnostic finding for typical pneumonia is

A. abnormal blood electrolytes.

B. elevated WBC

C. lung consolidation x-ray.

D. positive sputum culture

According to the following table, the most serious record delinquency problem occurred in A. April

B. May.

C. June

D. cannot determine from this data.

As a trauma registrar working in an emergency department, you want to begin comparing your trauma care services to other hospital-based emergency departments. To ensure that your facility is collecting the same data as other facilities, you review elements from which data set?

A. DEEDS.

B. UHDDS.

C. MDS.

D. ORYX.

When purchasing file guides, the Health Information Manager should be primarily concerned with which of the following?

A. cost and color

B. durability and visibility

C. cost and visibility

D. color and durability

A major consideration in a hospital or facility closure is to

A. notify all patients to pick up their original records by the date of closure.

B. seek approval for destruction of all records with a last date of treatment over 3 years ago.

C. ensure that authorized parties have access to the information as provided by law.

D. arrange for donating the records to an HIA/HIT education program for student use.

Acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis. Maxillary sinusectomy performed.

A. 461.0, 22.62

B. 473.0, 22.62

C. 461.0, 473.0, 22.62

D. 461.2, 22.62

You have had a problem with duplicate medical record numbers in your facility's MPI. Now you are joining a health information exchange, so you will need to clean up your database and prevent the duplicates from happening again. If you want to find near matches as well as identical matches in your MPI, you should implement a __________ algorithm.

A. probabilistic

B. deterministic

C. fuzzy

D. none of the above

The management assumption that work and the opportunity to utilize skills, knowledge, and talents are basic human needs was presented in McGregor's

A. Theory X.

B. Theory Y.

C. Delphi Process.

D. Managerial Grid Model.