RHIA Online Practice Questions and Answers

The data displayed in the histogram below could best be described as

A. negatively skewed.

B. positively skewed.

C. evenly distributed

D. normally distributed

Elizabeth Hoke is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Anywhere Medical Center. At the beginning of each fiscal year, she begins a formal planning cycle. Her annual planning process should begin with which of the following?

A. revising the institutional mission

B. developing strategic plans

C. establishing the annual organizational objectives

D. developing strategic goals

These are assigned to every HCPCS/CPT code under the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system to identify how the service or procedure described by the code would be paid.

A. geographic practice cost indices

B. major diagnostic categories

C. minimum data set

D. payment status indicator

Septicemia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Patient also was admitted with septic shock and decubitus ulcer of the sacrum. Patient had a central line inserted and infusion of drotrecogin alfa.

A. 038.19, 785.59, 707.02, 38.91

B. 038.11, V09.0, 707.03, 995.92, 785.52, 38.93, 00.11

C. 707.00, 038.11, 785.59, 38.93, 00.11

D. 038.11, 755.59, 995.92, 38.93

Patient is at a fertility clinic and undergoes intrauterine embryo transplant.

A. 58679

B. 58322

C. 58323

D. 58974

Patient in late stages of labor arrives at the hospital. Her OB physician is not able to make the delivery and the house physician delivers the baby vaginally. Primary care physician resumes care after delivery. Code the delivery.

A. 59409

B. 59612

C. 59620

D. 59400

Which type of system would be utilized to help the CEO of a facility in determining whether not to expand the radiation therapy services?

A. clinical information system

B. strategic decision support system

C. ambulatory care system

D. enterprise system

The failure to obtain the written consent of the patient before performing a surgical procedure may constitute

A. battery.

B. contempt.

C. libel.

D. malpractice.

A 4-year-old had a repair of an incarcerated inguinal hernia. This is the first time this child had been treated for this condition.

A. 49553

B. 49496

C. 49521

D. 49501

Your hospital takes advantage of the 8/80 exemption for health care facilities. Assuming that no employee worked more than 8 hours in a day, which of the employees listed in the table below will be paid overtime this pay period?

A. employees 101 and 105

B. employees 101, 102, and 105

C. employees 101, 104, and 105

D. employees 101, 103, 104, and 105