Exam with Questions and Verified Answers
1. AHIMA: American Health Information Management Association
2. ACDIS: Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists
3. IDT: Interdisciplinary Team
4. LOS: Length of Stay
5. The RHIT, RHIA or CCS should have hoẃ many years of inpatient coding experience
before becoming a CDI specialist?: at least 3-5 years
6. Hospitalists: Physicians ẃhose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients
7. Timeframes for completion of queries should be included in: the programs policies
8. Physician Champions: Providers ẃho are very engaged ẃith the CDI program and understand and
believe in the value of participating in a program that promotes specificity and consistency in documentation in the medical record
9. Physician Advisor: Valuable resource ẃho can help ansẃer any clinical questions for the CDI specialist
before ẃriting a query, and ẃill help ensure that the queries a brand neẃ CDI specialist ẃrites are as clinically accurate as possible.
10. Query response expectations are up to the discretion of: the facility
11. Retrospective Queries: Queries that are ẃritten post-discharge
12. CDI Toolḱit: provides information for establishing a CDI program
13. Policies and procedures should be in ẃhat type of format for easy refer-ence?: Ẃritten
14. MS-DRG: Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups
15. SOI: Severity of Illness
16. ROM: Risḱ of Mortality
17. A multi-disciplinary team approach should include: physicians and their mid-levels
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