WGU D546 HEALTHCARE POLICY AND
GOVERNANCE UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Which organization requires reporting of medical malpractice
payments, federal licensure and certification actions, and adverse
clinical privileges actions
Answer: National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
●● Which organization administers voluntary accreditation programs
and provides deemed status to certified hospitals and other healthcare
organizations?
Answer: THe Joint Commision
●● What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
external audit program that works to reduce Medicare improper
payments?
Answer: RACs
●● Which assessment do the conditions of participation require all home
health agencies to electronically report?
Answer: OASIS
,●● To which organization must a sentinel event be reported?
Answer: The Joint Commision
●● Which health information exchange (HIE) architecture describes
information that flows to more than one regional clinical data repository
(CDR) and requested records sent from one regional authority?
Answer: Federated
●● Which HIE model supports uniformity of data, quick responses times
to queries and consistency in data accessibility
Answer: Centralized
●● A local skilled nursing facility (SNF), hospital, and public health
agency all participate in an HIE. The data is pushed from their facilities
in to one repository where they all have access to retrieve data when
needed.
Which HIE model is used in this scenario?
Answer: Centralized
●● Which characteristic addresses the level of depth represented by data
in a fact or dimension table in a data warehouse?
Answer: Granularity
, ●● Which quality describes data that is unaffected when used across all
applications and systems?
Answer: Consistency
●● An HIM analyst is charged with reviewing abstracted information on
opioid-related admissions from the hospital's disease index database.
The analyst wants to make sure that the correct ICD-10 codes have been
abstracted and pulled from the database.
Which data quality characteristic does this situation involve?
Answer: Accuracy
●● An HIM director is analyzing the results of a survey that was
conducted to ask physicians and nurses about their satisfaction with the
HIM department. The following table shows the satisfaction percentage
scored for each question
98%
How often do HIM staff answer your call within 3 rings?
79%
How often are you able to receive the old paper records, on your current
patients, in an acceptable timeframe?
100%
How often are the reports provided by HIM staff correct and valid?
100%
GOVERNANCE UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Which organization requires reporting of medical malpractice
payments, federal licensure and certification actions, and adverse
clinical privileges actions
Answer: National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
●● Which organization administers voluntary accreditation programs
and provides deemed status to certified hospitals and other healthcare
organizations?
Answer: THe Joint Commision
●● What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
external audit program that works to reduce Medicare improper
payments?
Answer: RACs
●● Which assessment do the conditions of participation require all home
health agencies to electronically report?
Answer: OASIS
,●● To which organization must a sentinel event be reported?
Answer: The Joint Commision
●● Which health information exchange (HIE) architecture describes
information that flows to more than one regional clinical data repository
(CDR) and requested records sent from one regional authority?
Answer: Federated
●● Which HIE model supports uniformity of data, quick responses times
to queries and consistency in data accessibility
Answer: Centralized
●● A local skilled nursing facility (SNF), hospital, and public health
agency all participate in an HIE. The data is pushed from their facilities
in to one repository where they all have access to retrieve data when
needed.
Which HIE model is used in this scenario?
Answer: Centralized
●● Which characteristic addresses the level of depth represented by data
in a fact or dimension table in a data warehouse?
Answer: Granularity
, ●● Which quality describes data that is unaffected when used across all
applications and systems?
Answer: Consistency
●● An HIM analyst is charged with reviewing abstracted information on
opioid-related admissions from the hospital's disease index database.
The analyst wants to make sure that the correct ICD-10 codes have been
abstracted and pulled from the database.
Which data quality characteristic does this situation involve?
Answer: Accuracy
●● An HIM director is analyzing the results of a survey that was
conducted to ask physicians and nurses about their satisfaction with the
HIM department. The following table shows the satisfaction percentage
scored for each question
98%
How often do HIM staff answer your call within 3 rings?
79%
How often are you able to receive the old paper records, on your current
patients, in an acceptable timeframe?
100%
How often are the reports provided by HIM staff correct and valid?
100%
