AHIMA Practice Test 1 Questions And Answers Graded A+

AHIMA Practice Test 1 Questions And Answers Graded A+ what is a key characteristic of the POMR (problem oriented medical record)? uses an itemized list of the patient's past and present medical problems in developing an internal coding audit review program, what are two risk areas that should be targeted for audit? chargemaster description and medical mecessity what are some coding compliance activities? reviewing all rejected claims; developing procedures for identifying coding errors; coding diagnoses only when all applicable information is documented in the health record what are some things that ICD-10 can be used for? Sayles pg 183 the basis for epidemiological research; in the evaluation of medical care planning for healthcare delivery systems; to facilitate data storage and retrieval a skin lesion was removed from a patient's cheek in the dermatologist's office. The dermatologist documents "skin lesion" in the health record. Prior to billing the pathology report returns with a diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma? what action should be done by the coding professional for claim submission? cpt pg376 code basal cell carcinoma what is the approved method for conducting business in an organization? Sayles pg 408 procedure prcedres are specific statements about how work is to be carried out. data that are collected on large populations of individuals and stored in databases are referred to as____ Sayles pg 41 aggregate data aggregate data is extracted from individual health records and combined to form deidentified information about groups of patients that can be compared and organized the hospital's performance improvement council has compiled the following data on the volume of procedures performed during 2008. Given this data, which procedures should the council scrutinize in evaluating performance? quality pg 374 the outliers; the initiation phase begins with the determination that a gap exists between organization performance and expected outcomes