RHIT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WIH CORRECT ANSWERS

Utilization Review. CORRECT ANSWER Process of determining whether the medical service provided to a specific Medicare or Medicaid patient is necessary. Daily inpatient census CORRECT ANSWER official count of inpatients present at midnight, which is calculated each day Also included are any patients who were admitted and discharged the same day Vocabulary standards CORRECT ANSWER provide consistent descriptions of medical terms for an individual's condition in the health record Custodian Records CORRECT ANSWER When records for evidence is involved at the trial, the records custodian is called a witness by one party or other to testify as the authenticity of a record as evidence. The records custodian verifies that it contains information about the individual. flowchart CORRECT ANSWER a graphic tool that uses standard symbols to visually display detailed information, including time and distance, of the sequential flow of work of an individual or a product as it progresses through a process fish bone chart CORRECT ANSWER a performance improvement tool used to identify or classify the root causes of a problem or condition and to display the root causes graphically; also called the cause and effect diagram Aggregated Data CORRECT ANSWER Data that has been extracted from individual health records and combined to form deidentified information about groups of patients that can be compared. Overlay CORRECT ANSWER Mistakenly assigned another person’s health record number. Overlap CORRECT ANSWER When a patient has more than one health record number at different locations within an enterprise. Duplicate Record CORRECT ANSWER 2 or more medical record numbers. Security CORRECT ANSWER To control/protect access of health information and records. ROI Turnaround Time CORRECT ANSWER Time between receipt of request and when the request is sent to the requester 30 days on site, 60 days off site