Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

What process assists a health care facility in continuously looking at the ways that problems develop and seeking ways to prevent problems from happening in the future?

William Rumple was pronounced dead on arrival (DOA). The hospital pathologist performed an autopsy on Mr. Rumple's body. This statistical event would be counted in the

Your organization is sending confidential patient information across the Internet using technology that will transform the original data into unintelligible code that can be re­created by authorized users. This technique is called

A diabetic patient is admitted to the hospital with acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to ulcer disease. In this case, the diabetes would be

Sickle cell pain crisis

Which of the following agencies is empowered to implement the law governing Medicare and Medicaid?

Lizzie O'Leary, Director of the Health Information Services Department, is writing a memo about a recent problem the department has had with a contracted copy service when she is notified of an emergency, hospital-wide department-head meeting. Because it is necessary that the memo be completed by the end of the day, it is most appropriate for the director to delegate its completion to the supervisor of

What is the best tool for differentiating between common cause variation and special ca variation?

Southwest Home Care utilizes a discipline system that provides for stronger penalties for successive repeat offense. You are most likely using

As a general rule, a person making a report in good faith and under statutory command (e.g., on child abuse, communicable diseases, births, deaths, etc.) is

Severe malnutrition, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

The limiting charge is a percentage limit on fees specified by legislation that the nonparticipating physician may bill Medicare beneficiaries above the nonPAR fee schedule amount. The limiting charge is

CT scan of the head with contrast

Mary had resection of the large bowel for carcinoma of the colon. She is admitted for further staging of her cancer and receives radiation therapy during this admission.

The delinquent rate

Gastric ulcer with hemorrhage resulting in acute blood-loss amnia Esophagogastroduodenoscopy performed.

If this physician is a nonparticipating physician who does not accept assignment for this claim, the total amount of the patient's financial liability (out-of-pocket expense) is

The file section supervisor, is preparing the staffing budget for the coming fiscal year. Presently the staff is filing approximately 500 charts per day. By the time the fiscal year begins, this is expected to increase to 650 charts per day. Currently it takes 9 FTEs to file 500 charts. The supervisor should project a FTE increase for the coming year's budget of

Collins Family Hospital had a bed count of 150 for the first 6 months of the year. On June 1, it added 15 beds when it opened a new wing. If you are given the average length of stay for the year, can you calculate the annual bed turnover rate? How?

This is a ten digit, intelligence-free, numeric identifier designed to replaced all previous provider legacy numbers. This number identifies the physician universally to all payers. This number is issued to all HIPAA-covered entities. It is mandatory on the CMS­1500 and UB-04 claim forms.