AHIMA RHIA FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ ASSURED
SUCCESS NEW UPDATE 2025/2026, Exams
of Nursing
A PI team is concerned with the time it is taking for patients to get through the registration
process. To better understand the causes or reasons for the delay in this process the PI team
would like to gather observational data. What data collection tool would be appropriate for this
team to develop for their observation data?
a. Check sheet
b. Ordinal data tool
c. Balance sheet
d. Nominal data tool a. Check sheet
The coding department at Community Physician's Clinic developed the following report for the
denials committee at the clinic. The billing report shows the following information. Using the
following information, identify which payment source has the highest denial rate.
a. Medicare
b. Commercial payers
c. Worker's Compensation
d. TRICARE c. Worker's Compensation
Your physician clinic's CFO has determined that it costs the clinic $3.50 per telephone call for
the receptionist to schedule an appointment with a physician in the clinic, compared with $1.50
per online request to schedule an appointment.During one day at the clinic, what would the per
appointment cost be if all 250 patient appointments were scheduled by telephone?
a. $375.00
b. $525.00
c. $875.00
d. $1,325.00 c. 875
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,The following data were derived from a comparative discharge database for hip and femur
procedures:
These data can best be described as:
a. Aggregate
b. Identifiable
c. Patient specific
d. Primary a. Aggregate
In which type of distribution are the mean, median, and mode equal?
a. Bimodal distribution
b. Simple distribution
c. Nonnormal distribution
d. Normal distribution d. d. Normal distribution
In the relational database shown here, the patient table and the visit table are related by which
of the following?
a. Visit number
b. Date of visit
c. Patient number
d. Practitioner number c. Patient number
What is data called that consists of factual details aggregated or summarized from a group of
health records that provide no means to identify specific patients?
a. Original
b. Source
c. Protected
d. Derived d. Derived
If you want to display the parts of a whole in graphic form, what graphic technique would you
use?
a. Table
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,b. Histogram
c. Line graph
d. Pie chart d. Pie chart
After the types of cases to be included in a cancer registry have been determined, what is the
next step in data acquisition?
a. Case registration
b. Case definition
c. Case abstracting
d. Case finding d. Case finding
Your physician clinic's CFO has determined that it costs the clinic $3.50 per telephone call for
the receptionist to schedule an appointment with a physician in the clinic, compared with $1.50
per online request to schedule an appointment.During one day at the clinic, what would the
per-appointment cost savings be if 250 patient appointments were arranged by online request
rather than by telephone?
a. $250.00
b. $375.00
c. $500.00
d. $875.00 c. $500.00
A health data analyst has been asked to abstract patient demographic information into an
electronic database. Which of the following would the analyst include in the database?
a. Patient date of birth
b. Name of attending physician
c. Patient room number
d. Admitting diagnosisa. Patient date of birth
After analyzing the data presented in the table, which physician has the highest number of
unapproved abbreviations?Community HospitalHealth Information ServicesUnapproved
Abbreviations ListNovember 20XXPhysician Number# of Discharges# of
UnapprovedAbbreviationsRate of
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, UnapprovedAbbreviations1022983411.4%237247218.5%3911102623.6%5181442215.3%63720
641.9%802822125.6%9001001212.0%Total1187140
a. 802
b. 391
c. 900
d. 102 d. 102
Why is the MEDPAR file limited in terms of being used for research purposes?
a. It only contains Medicare patients.
b. It only provides demographic data about patients.
c. It uses diagnoses and procedure codes.
d. It breaks charges down by specific types of service. a. It only contains Medicare patients.
City Hospital's Revenue Cycle Management team has established the following benchmarks: (1)
The value of discharged, not final billed cases (DNFB) should not exceed two days of average
daily revenue, and (2) AR days are not to exceed 60 days. The net average daily revenue is
$1,000,000. The following data indicate that City Hospital's DNFB cases met its benchmarks:
a. 25 percent of the time
b. 50 percent of the time
c. 75 percent of the time
d. 100 percent of the time b. 50 percent of the time
Community Hospital's HIM department conducted a random sample of 150 inpatient health
records to determine the discharge summary completion timeliness rate. Thirteen discharges
were determined to be out of compliance with completion standards. Which of the following
percentages represents the timeliness rate for discharge summaries at Community Hospital?
a. 8.7%
b. 9.5%
c. 41.5%
d. 91.3% d. 91.3%
A secondary data source includes which of the following?
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AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ ASSURED
SUCCESS NEW UPDATE 2025/2026, Exams
of Nursing
A PI team is concerned with the time it is taking for patients to get through the registration
process. To better understand the causes or reasons for the delay in this process the PI team
would like to gather observational data. What data collection tool would be appropriate for this
team to develop for their observation data?
a. Check sheet
b. Ordinal data tool
c. Balance sheet
d. Nominal data tool a. Check sheet
The coding department at Community Physician's Clinic developed the following report for the
denials committee at the clinic. The billing report shows the following information. Using the
following information, identify which payment source has the highest denial rate.
a. Medicare
b. Commercial payers
c. Worker's Compensation
d. TRICARE c. Worker's Compensation
Your physician clinic's CFO has determined that it costs the clinic $3.50 per telephone call for
the receptionist to schedule an appointment with a physician in the clinic, compared with $1.50
per online request to schedule an appointment.During one day at the clinic, what would the per
appointment cost be if all 250 patient appointments were scheduled by telephone?
a. $375.00
b. $525.00
c. $875.00
d. $1,325.00 c. 875
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,The following data were derived from a comparative discharge database for hip and femur
procedures:
These data can best be described as:
a. Aggregate
b. Identifiable
c. Patient specific
d. Primary a. Aggregate
In which type of distribution are the mean, median, and mode equal?
a. Bimodal distribution
b. Simple distribution
c. Nonnormal distribution
d. Normal distribution d. d. Normal distribution
In the relational database shown here, the patient table and the visit table are related by which
of the following?
a. Visit number
b. Date of visit
c. Patient number
d. Practitioner number c. Patient number
What is data called that consists of factual details aggregated or summarized from a group of
health records that provide no means to identify specific patients?
a. Original
b. Source
c. Protected
d. Derived d. Derived
If you want to display the parts of a whole in graphic form, what graphic technique would you
use?
a. Table
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,b. Histogram
c. Line graph
d. Pie chart d. Pie chart
After the types of cases to be included in a cancer registry have been determined, what is the
next step in data acquisition?
a. Case registration
b. Case definition
c. Case abstracting
d. Case finding d. Case finding
Your physician clinic's CFO has determined that it costs the clinic $3.50 per telephone call for
the receptionist to schedule an appointment with a physician in the clinic, compared with $1.50
per online request to schedule an appointment.During one day at the clinic, what would the
per-appointment cost savings be if 250 patient appointments were arranged by online request
rather than by telephone?
a. $250.00
b. $375.00
c. $500.00
d. $875.00 c. $500.00
A health data analyst has been asked to abstract patient demographic information into an
electronic database. Which of the following would the analyst include in the database?
a. Patient date of birth
b. Name of attending physician
c. Patient room number
d. Admitting diagnosisa. Patient date of birth
After analyzing the data presented in the table, which physician has the highest number of
unapproved abbreviations?Community HospitalHealth Information ServicesUnapproved
Abbreviations ListNovember 20XXPhysician Number# of Discharges# of
UnapprovedAbbreviationsRate of
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, UnapprovedAbbreviations1022983411.4%237247218.5%3911102623.6%5181442215.3%63720
641.9%802822125.6%9001001212.0%Total1187140
a. 802
b. 391
c. 900
d. 102 d. 102
Why is the MEDPAR file limited in terms of being used for research purposes?
a. It only contains Medicare patients.
b. It only provides demographic data about patients.
c. It uses diagnoses and procedure codes.
d. It breaks charges down by specific types of service. a. It only contains Medicare patients.
City Hospital's Revenue Cycle Management team has established the following benchmarks: (1)
The value of discharged, not final billed cases (DNFB) should not exceed two days of average
daily revenue, and (2) AR days are not to exceed 60 days. The net average daily revenue is
$1,000,000. The following data indicate that City Hospital's DNFB cases met its benchmarks:
a. 25 percent of the time
b. 50 percent of the time
c. 75 percent of the time
d. 100 percent of the time b. 50 percent of the time
Community Hospital's HIM department conducted a random sample of 150 inpatient health
records to determine the discharge summary completion timeliness rate. Thirteen discharges
were determined to be out of compliance with completion standards. Which of the following
percentages represents the timeliness rate for discharge summaries at Community Hospital?
a. 8.7%
b. 9.5%
c. 41.5%
d. 91.3% d. 91.3%
A secondary data source includes which of the following?
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