CIC Inpatient Coding Study Exam | Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update 2024

Your hospital uses and EHR for all documentation of all services, including coding and billing. Your town is hit with a tornado and your hospital is badly damaged including the servers, network connections and computers. How do you provide medical records for patients transferred to other facilities for their care? - You obtain copes from your disaster recovery server because HIPAA requires records to be secure and protected you have to have a downtime process in place for facilities with EHR's and you have a disaster recovery pan in place. This may include a disaster recovery company that houses your data and provides you with backup equipment in times of a disaster or you have off-site storage to get copies of needed medical information. Which of the following describes a violation of HIPAA's privacy rule? - A nurse and an orderly at a state hospital discussed the HIV/AIDS status of a patient in earshot of other patients Which of the following diseases is a malignancy of the lymphatic system? - Hodgkin's disease A drug which ends in the suffix -pril is considered a(n) - ACE inhibitor A drug which ends in the suffix -vir is considered a(n) - Antiviral A drug which ends in the suffix -olol is considered a(n) - Beta blocker A drug which ends in the suffix -itidine is considered a(n) - H2 antagonist A patient is admitted with neck pain following a collision with another softball player at a community baseball field. The diagnosis at the time of discharge is right internal carotid artery dissection likely secondary to trauma. The diagnoses coded for this injury are - I77.71, W51.XXXA, Y93.64, Y92.320 How many diagnostic categories (MDCs) are in the MS-DRG system? - 25