Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

The quality improvement team for the HIM department meets to generate ideas to address physician complaints about missing dictation reports. What QI tool would prove useful in discussing various recommendations for solving this problem?

Which of the following employees would be considered exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act?

What QI tool uses criteria to weigh different alternatives? This display would assist in viewing all relevant information at the same time.

You want to construct a data display for a frequency distribution. You will use a

Angela has just undergone orthopedic surgery. Documentation indicates that she lost 700 cc of blood during surgery. Her hemoglobin and hematocrit are monitored following surgery. Subsequently she is transfused. The physician documents anemia as a secondary diagnosis. The coder would

An example of objective entry in the health record supplied by a health care practitioner is the

When a patient is admitted in respiratory failure due to a chronic nonrespiratory condition,

Refer to the table Summary of Selected Blood Product Review. The table was first produced during which quality improvement function?

Amy Chan, RHIT, is Manager of Health Information at Golden Gate Home Care. She is elected leader of the documentation team, and is preparing to call a meeting. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of committee meetings?

Patient presents to the hospital for a three-view x-ray of the right shoulder. The diagnosis shoulder pain and the radiology report states the patient has a dislocated shoulder. What would be the correct codes to report to the insurance company?

Fareeda's method improvement objectives are to use an organized approach to determine how to accomplish a task with less effort in less time or at a lower cost while maintaining or improving the quality of the outcome. Frequently, methods improvement is referred to as

An office consultation is performed for a post-menopausal woman who is complaining of spotting in the past 6 months with right lower quadrant tenderness. A detailed history and physical were performed with a low-complexity medical decision.

Ultrasonic guidance for the needle biopsy of the liver. Code the complete procedure.

What was the net death rate at Happy Valley Hospital last year? Happy Valley Hospital discharged 6069 adults/children and 545 newborns last year. A total of 1 adults/children and 1279 newborns were seen in the emergency department. Information on deaths at Happy Valley last year is listed below.

Tina, the Coding Supervisor at Upstate Hospital, has heard rumors that the Health Information Management Department at her facility is starting a coding training program. Rumor also has it that the Department Director, Rose, is trying to recruit the coding supervisor from a neighboring hospital to head up the training position. Tina makes the following statement to the assistant director: "I'm obviously not good enough for the training position. Perhaps I should resign." As the Assistant Director, how should you respond?

There were some HIM professionals who refused to participate in the job stress/job satisfaction study. This is of great concern to the AHIMA researchers, who worry about the introduction of

A pregnant patient has an incompetent cervix which was repaired using a vaginal cerclage.

Patient has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Patient arrived in the operating room where a therapeutic orchiectomy is performed.

A covered entity:

Hemorrhagic cystitis; cystoscopy with biopsy of bladder