PART 3 Flashcards
You are interviewing a candidate for a subpoena clerk position in the ROI section. Which of the following is the least appropriate information to ask an interviewee to provide?
a. Can you share an experience where you had to determine applicable state law?
b. Can you provide a copy of your most recent CE certificate and AHIMA membership?
c. Do you have family responsibilities that would keep you from remaining at a trial?
d. Do you have transportation for attendance at depositions and court?
Do you have family responsibilities that would keep you from remaining at a trial?
Written documents that assist an organization in achieving its objectives and carry out its mission statement are known as
A. strategic plans.
B. game plans.
C. tactical plans.
D. operational plans
Strategic plans
With proper written authorization from a patient, Houston Hospital obtains a copy of the patients health record from Austin Hospital. Houston Hospital the releases the information from Auston Hospital to Dallas Hospital. This practice is
A: never appropriate, because medical information should not be redisclosed.
B: regularly practiced due to the threat of medical lawsuits.
C: noncompliant with HIPAA, but compliant with FIOA.
D: mandated by HIPAA to ensure continuity of patient care.
Never appropriate, bc medical information should not be re-disclosed
Which of the following graphs would be best for the cancer registrar to use to display the 5 year survival rates of lung cancer patients in the year 20xx to 20xx at your hospital?
a. Frequency Polygon
b. Bar graph
c. Line graph
d. Histogram
Line Graph
What must be in place to enhance the retrieval process for scanned documents?
a. Electronic signature
b. Indexing system
c. RFID device
d. Table of contents
Indexing System
What is the principal difference between net autopsy rate and adjusted hospital autopsy rate?
a. Net autopsy rate considers only inpatient deaths
b. hospital autopsy rates include only those deaths in which the bodies are available for autopsy
c. fetal deaths are not counted in hospital autopsy rates
d. legal cases sometimes are excluded from deaths when commuting net autopsy rate
Net autopsy rate considers only inpatient deaths
Under the RBRVS physician payment system, each HCPCS/CPT code contains three components, each having assign relative value unit. These three components are
A. geographic index, wage index, and cost of living index
B. fee-for-service, per diem payment, and capitation.
C. conversion factor, CMS weight, and hospital-specific rate.
D. physician work, practice expense, and malpractice insurance expense.
Physician work, practice expense, and malpractice insurance expense
Under the HIPAA Security Rule, these types of safeguards have to do with protection the environment.
a. Administrative
b. Physical
c. Security
d. Technical
Physical
To compute the reimbursement to a particular hospital for a particular MS-DRG, multiply the hospital’s base payment rate by the
A. conversion factor.
B. relative weight for the MS-DRG.
C. case-mix index.
D. geographic practice cost
relative weight for the MS-DRG.
The supervisor over imaging was receiving frequent complaints from the scanning clerks regarding the prepping clerk’s job performance. The scanning clerks stated that it was becoming difficult to maintain their productivity level because the prepping clerk was not processing the discharge charts in a timely manner. In order to get a clearer understanding of the situation, the supervisor asked the scanning clerk and the prepping clerk to complete a task list for a 2 week period. The supervisor is constructing a
A. flow process chart
B. movement diagram
C. work distribution chart
D. procedure flow chart.
Work distribution chart
