Exam 1: Registered Health Information Administrator

The occurrence of an OCE (outpatient code editor) edit can result in one of __________ different dispositions, which help to ensure that the fiscal intermediaries in all parts of the country are following similar claims processing procedures. An example of one of these dispositions is "claim rejection."

Patient was seen in the Emergency Department with lacerations on the left arm. Two lacerations, one 7 cm and one 9 cm, were closed with layered sutures.

You want to graph the number of patients admitted to three different medical staff services of each day of the last month. Because you have a large number of observations (one for each day of the month) and you want to be able to compare the observations for each of the three services on one data display, your best choice is a

In the ICD-9-CM classification systems, shooting pain in the right eye due to the presence of an intact, correctly positioned permanent contact lens would be coded as a(n)

With the passage of Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act) in 1965, which of the following functions became mandatory?

Upon learning that a court order violates state law, the HIM professional should

The most realistic approach that could encourage increased productivity in the tedious record file/retrieval area is to

The HIM Department is located in a teaching hospital and provides record access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To secure the file area and continue to maintain accessibility, the department director should

Bronchoscopy with multiple transbronchial right upper and right lower lobe lung biopsy with fluoroscopic guidance

In calculating the fee for a physician's reimbursement, the three relative value units are each multiplied by

The prevention of illness through vaccination occurs due to the formation of

Patient presents to the operating room for excision of three lesions. The 1.5 cm and 2.0 cm lesions of the back were excised with one excision. The 0.5 cm lesion of the hand was excised. The pathology report identified both back lesions as squamous cell carcinoma. The hand lesion was identified as seborrheic keratosis.

Internal disclosures of patient information for patient care purposes should be granted

A pregnant patient was admitted to the hospital with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. She is a type I diabetic and was brought under control and subsequently discharged. The following code was assigned: Which of the following describe why the coding is in error?

The organism transmitted by a mosquito bite that causes malaria is a

Pernicious anemia

Hepatic coma with ascites due to Laennec's cirrhosis

If this physician is a nonparticipating physician who does NOT accept assignment for this claim, the total amount he will receive is

Your organization has many information systems from several different vendors. These sys need to share common information such as patient name and medical record number. Some elements, such as service, may be stored differently in the different systems. You should cons using a(n)

You are trying to improve communications with your staff by posting graphs of signs statistics on the employee bulletin board. You recently calculated the percentage of employees spend on each of six major tasks. Because you would like the employees to appreciate each task as a percentage of their whole day, you will post these figures using a