Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

What microform should the HIM practitioner select if the records must be unitized and color-coded of filing purposes?

Patient is admitted for workup for melena. Laboratory results reveal chronic blood loss anemia. Colonoscopy with biopsy reveals Crohn's disease of the descending colon.

Technologies that can make data capture easier include all but which one of the following?

A physician performed an outpatient surgical procedure on the eye orbit of a Medicare patient. Upon searching the CPT codes and consulting with the physician, the coder is unable to find a code for the procedure. The coder should assign

You are looking at your policies, procedures, training program, etc., and comparing them to the HIPAA regulations. You are conducting a

After the researchers see the number of subjects they will have to interview, they re­examine the criteria. The researchers could decrease the number of subjects while having the least impact the reliability of the study by

To monitor timely claims processing in a hospital, a summary report of "patient receivables" is generated frequently. Aged receivables can negatively affect  a facility's cash flow; therefore, to maintain the facility's fiscal integrity, the HIM manager must routinely analyze this report.

Joint Comission requires the attending physician to countersign health record documentation that is entered by

As a new HIM manager of an acute care facility, you have been asked to update the facility's policy for a physician's verbal orders in accordance with Joint Commission standards and state law. Your first area of concern is the qualifications of those individuals in your facility who have been authorized to record verbal orders. For this information, you will consult

If there are 150,000 records and the HIM Department receives 3,545 requests of records within a given period of time, what is the request rate?

The Joint Commission recently surveyed an acute care hospital. The hospital just received the survey report and the accreditation decision. Which of the following categories should the hospital leaders address first?

As the Information Security Officer at your facility, you have been asked to provide examples of technical security safeguards adopted as a result of HIPAA legislation. Which of the following would you provide?

The following data elements are in a limited data set file being released. Which data element is in the file in error, in that it is PHI?

The standard claim from used by hospitals to request reimbursement for inpatient and outpatient procedures performed or services provided is called the

Gina is the HIPAA Privacy and Security Officer and primary trainer for a regional health system. In determining how a person in a position in a department uses health information, she must 1 certainly review the

The patient's family asked the attending physician to keep the patient in the hospital for a few days more until they could make arrangements for the patient's home care. Because the patient no longer meets criteria for continued stay, if the physician complies with the family's request, this would be considered

A HIM Department wants to buy new open-shelf filing units for its file expansion. Each of the shelves in a new 6-shelf unit measures 33 linear filing inches. There will be an estimated 1,000 records to file. The average record is 1 inch thick. How many filing units should be purchased?

It takes twice as long to perform Service C, so the doctors decided Service C should count as two services for the purpose of calculating workload. If Service C counts twice as much as Service A or Service B, then the physician who provides the most services was Doctor The physicians at Sunset Shore Clinic reported the following statistics last Tuesday.

Closure of traumatic kidney injury.

Differentiate between the physical and logical data models.