RHIA Online Practice Questions and Answers

The premise that charitable institutions could be held blameless for their negligent acts is known as

A. doctrine of respondent superior.

B. doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.

C. doctrine of charitable immunity.

D. negligence factor.

A culture and sensitivity report was returned to the inpatient unit of Brian Hospital. The sensitivity showed bacterial resistance to the current antibiotic the patient was receiving. The patient continued on the same antibiotic without improvement. A generic quality screen identified this case for review. At a minimum, which committee should review this case?

A. Surgical Case Review

B. Safety Committee

C. Information Management Committee

D. Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

Case finding methods for patients with diabetes includes a review of all but which one of the following?

A. health plans

B. CPT diagnostic codes

C. billing data

D. medication lists

Frank has been diagnosed with sick sinus syndrome and is being admitted for dual chamber pacemaker and leads insertion. Frank also has type II diabetes on oral medication as well as insulin regimen. Surgery is carried out without complication.

A. 427.81, 250.00, V58.67, 37.72, 37.83

B. 427.81, 250.01, 37.71, 37.83

C. 427.81, 37.70, 37.83

D. 427.81, 250.00, 250.01, 37.72, 37.83

Agnes is admitted with cough, fever, and dysphagia. Chest x-ray shows infiltrates in both lower lobes. Sputum culture is positive for Staph aureus. Swallow study indicates that Agnes aspirates. Physician documents aspiration pneumonia and Staph aureus pneumonia. As a coder, you would assign codes for the following and with correct sequencing order.

A. Staph aureus pneumonia, dysphagia

B. Staph aureus pneumonia, aspiration pneumonia

C. Aspiration pneumonia, dysphagia

D. Aspiration pneumonia, Staph aureus pneumonia, dysphagia

Male with urinary incontinence. Sling procedure was performed 6 months ago and now the patient has returned for a revision of the sling procedure.

A. 53449

B. 53442

C. 53440

D. 53431

Laminectomy and excision of intradural lumbar lesion

A. 63272

B. 63267

C. 63282

D. 63252

Tracheostoma revision with flap rotation

A. 31830

B. 31750

C. 31614

D. 31613

You are performing the final review of the RFP that is to be sent out to prospective vendors. Uf review, you see content that should not be included in the operational requirement section ofl document, so you delete this information. Which of the following would you delete?

A. response time

B. data architecture

C. data conversion

D. data analysis tools

The steps from project identification to implementation and support of an information system called

A. systems analysis.

B. information system life cycle.

C. project management.

D. data model.

Your department must send information electronically to the state health department every day. Currently this is taking a significant amount of time. What technology can be used to' automatically send this information without human intervention?

A. electronic data interchange

B. LAN

C. Internet

D. network interface card

In your department employee performance is rated using a continuous scale range unsatisfactory through average to outstanding. Some other departments use a discrete system which the supervisor assigns "does not meet standards," "meets standards," and "exc standards." Both systems being used are

A. rating scales.

B. checklists.

C. critical incident methods.

D. ranking methods.

Jordan is an RHIA who works at a large academic medical center. Her $37,540 salary is paid 60% from research grants as clinical trial coordinator, and 40% by HIM as a database manager. The hospital's fringe benefit rate is 23%. How much must the HIM director include in the budget (rounded to the nearest dollar) to cover Jordan's database management role?

A. $15,016

B. $18,470

C. $22,524

D. $27.705

In your job as Chief Security Officer, you are evaluating software programs that will support your policy on sound terminal controls within your facility. One of the features you include in your request for information to vendors is

A. time-out feature.

B. encryption.

C. voice recognition feature.

D. unique identifier for log-on.

A researcher at your facility has submitted his study to the IRB for approval. As a member of the IRB Review Committee, you note that his research is investigating lung cancer occurrence in women who smoke. His timeframe for the study is January through December of 2008. In this study, the independent variable in this case is:

A. the study timeframe.

B. women who smoke.

C. women who do not smoke.

D. cancer occurrence.