Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

An exception to the minimum necessary rule can be made when:

Emma Miller, RHIA, interviewed one applicant for the position of inpatient coder and subsequently hired the applicant. During the 20-minute interview, she told the applicant about the department and hospital and what the job entailed. Much to Emma's disappointment, this newly hired employee did not work out. What went wrong?

You are considering three vendors for your new encoder. Your facility wants to purchase the system from a stable company. After reviewing the vendor profile information below, which of the vendors would you eliminate from consideration?

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a project sponsored by the

You and the statistician, Dr. Cline, are working to determine sample size. You are discussing which sampling method you will use. There are 1,200 possible records and you need 100 records for the study. Dr. Cline suggests you select every twelfth record until sample size is achieved. This makes sense to you. It takes less time and is less subject to error than other sampling methods. The two of you agree to use

Patient undergoes total thyroidectomy with parathyroid autotransplantation.

In the RFP, you have asked for information regarding the amount of time that a vendor has been in business and the number of installations of the product under consideration. If you want to review this information, you would go to the section.

Mark is an HIM employee who utilizes six different information systems as part of his job. Each of these has a different password. In order to keep up with the password for each system, Mark has written them all on paper and taped it to the back of his wife's picture on his desk. What technology could be used to eliminate this problem for Mark and other employees in the same situation?

If HIPAA and state law conflicts, which prevails:

Common kidney stone treatments that allow small particles to be flushed out of the body through the urinary system include all of the following EXCEPT

A surgeon on the Health Record Committee voices a concern that, although he has been told that the operative report is to be dictated immediately after surgery, he has often had to deal with the problem of transcription backlog which prevented the report from getting on the health record in a timely manner. Your advice to this doctor is that when a known backlog exists, he should

A major consideration in a hospital or facility closure is to

Office visit for 43-year-old male, new patient, with no complaints. Patient is applying for life insurance and requests a physical examination. A detailed health and family history was obtained and a basic physical was done. Physician completed life insurance physical form at patient's request. Blood and urine were collected.

When coding neoplasms, topography means

You are developing a complete data dictionary for your facility. Which of the following resources will be most helpful in providing standard definitions for data commonly collected in acute care hospitals?

A distribution is said to be positively skewed when the mean is

The project definition justifies the need for the new project. What would you expect to see in the project justification?

The surgeon comes out to speak to a patient's family. He tells them that the patient came through the surgery fine. The mass was benign and they could see the patient in an hour. He talks low so that the other people in the waiting room will not hear but someone walked by and heard. This is called a(n)

Under ASCs, when multiple procedures are performed during the same surgical session, a payment reduction is applied. The procedure in the highest level group is reimbursed at ____ (percent) and all remaining procedures are reimbursed at ____(percent).

As a member of the project team for document imaging implementation, you were asked to provide the information in the grid. This is an example of a(an)