CDIP CORRECT EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - ✔✔A professional
association for health information management professionals.
American Hospital Association (AHA) - ✔✔The national trade organization that provides
education, conducts research, and represents the hospital industry's interests in
national legislative matters.
American Medical Association (AMA) - ✔✔The national professional membership
organization for physicians that distributes scientific information and represents the
medical profession's interests.
APM Performance Pathways (APP) - ✔✔The APM Performance Pathway (APP) is a
MIPS reporting and scoring pathway for MIPS eligible clinicians who are also
participants in MIPS APMs.
Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) - ✔✔Formed in
2007 as a community for clinical documentation professionals to communicate
resources and strategies.
Attending Physician - ✔✔The physician primarily responsible for the care and treatment
of a patient.
Attestation - ✔✔The act of applying an electronic signature to the content showing
authorship and legal responsibility for a particular unit of information.
Audit - ✔✔A function that allows retrospective reconstruction of events, including who
executed the events in question, why, and what changes were made as a result.
, Audit Log - ✔✔A chronological record of electronic systems activities that enables the
reconstruction, review, and examination of events surrounding each transaction.
Audit Trail - ✔✔A chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of
information system activity used to determine security violations.
Average Length of Stay (ALOS) - ✔✔The mean length of stay for hospital inpatients
discharged during a given period of time.
Base Rate - ✔✔Rate per discharge for operating and capital-related components for an
acute care hospital.
Benchmark - ✔✔Serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged; a
point of reference from which measurements may be made; a standardized problem or
test that serves as a basis for evaluation or comparison.
Benchmarking - ✔✔The systematic comparison of the products, services, and
outcomes of one organization with those of similar organizations; or the systematic
comparison of one organization's outcomes with regional or national standards.
Beneficiary and Family Centered Care (BFCC)-QIOs - ✔✔BFCC-QIOs help Medicare
beneficiaries exercise their right to high-quality health care. They manage all beneficiary
complaints and quality of care reviews to ensure consistency in the review process
while taking into consideration local factors important to beneficiaries and their families.
Big Data - ✔✔1. The concept of large volumes of complex and diverse data. 2. A term
for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications
are inadequate.
Breach - ✔✔A breach is, generally, an impermissible use or disclosure under the
Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health
information.
Case Mix Index (CMI) - ✔✔The average DRG relative weight for all Medicare
admissions.
Case/Care Management - ✔✔1. A process used by a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare
professional to manage a patient's healthcare. 2. The ongoing, concurrent review
performed by clinical professionals to ensure the necessity and effectiveness of the
clinical services being provided to a patient.
Chain of Command - ✔✔A hierarchical reporting structure within an organization.
SET A+
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - ✔✔A professional
association for health information management professionals.
American Hospital Association (AHA) - ✔✔The national trade organization that provides
education, conducts research, and represents the hospital industry's interests in
national legislative matters.
American Medical Association (AMA) - ✔✔The national professional membership
organization for physicians that distributes scientific information and represents the
medical profession's interests.
APM Performance Pathways (APP) - ✔✔The APM Performance Pathway (APP) is a
MIPS reporting and scoring pathway for MIPS eligible clinicians who are also
participants in MIPS APMs.
Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) - ✔✔Formed in
2007 as a community for clinical documentation professionals to communicate
resources and strategies.
Attending Physician - ✔✔The physician primarily responsible for the care and treatment
of a patient.
Attestation - ✔✔The act of applying an electronic signature to the content showing
authorship and legal responsibility for a particular unit of information.
Audit - ✔✔A function that allows retrospective reconstruction of events, including who
executed the events in question, why, and what changes were made as a result.
, Audit Log - ✔✔A chronological record of electronic systems activities that enables the
reconstruction, review, and examination of events surrounding each transaction.
Audit Trail - ✔✔A chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of
information system activity used to determine security violations.
Average Length of Stay (ALOS) - ✔✔The mean length of stay for hospital inpatients
discharged during a given period of time.
Base Rate - ✔✔Rate per discharge for operating and capital-related components for an
acute care hospital.
Benchmark - ✔✔Serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged; a
point of reference from which measurements may be made; a standardized problem or
test that serves as a basis for evaluation or comparison.
Benchmarking - ✔✔The systematic comparison of the products, services, and
outcomes of one organization with those of similar organizations; or the systematic
comparison of one organization's outcomes with regional or national standards.
Beneficiary and Family Centered Care (BFCC)-QIOs - ✔✔BFCC-QIOs help Medicare
beneficiaries exercise their right to high-quality health care. They manage all beneficiary
complaints and quality of care reviews to ensure consistency in the review process
while taking into consideration local factors important to beneficiaries and their families.
Big Data - ✔✔1. The concept of large volumes of complex and diverse data. 2. A term
for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications
are inadequate.
Breach - ✔✔A breach is, generally, an impermissible use or disclosure under the
Privacy Rule that compromises the security or privacy of the protected health
information.
Case Mix Index (CMI) - ✔✔The average DRG relative weight for all Medicare
admissions.
Case/Care Management - ✔✔1. A process used by a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare
professional to manage a patient's healthcare. 2. The ongoing, concurrent review
performed by clinical professionals to ensure the necessity and effectiveness of the
clinical services being provided to a patient.
Chain of Command - ✔✔A hierarchical reporting structure within an organization.
