CHDA PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The nominal group technique gives each member of the team an opportunity to select
the most important ideas from an affinity diagram. This technique allows groups to do
which of the following? - Answer Narrow the focus of discussion without extended
involvement
You have been asked to write a report to capture patient injuries by diagnosis code. To
find out which of the injuries occurred after the patient came into the hospital, you
would want to use the present on admission indicator. Which of the following indicators
would show you the injuries that occurred after the patient arrived to the hospital?
Answer N
Which of the following is a system which may include alerts, reminders, and links for
clinical care providers? - Answer Clinical decision support system
Which data element would be used to verify if the present on admission coding was
correct on a patient with an admitting diagnosis to decubitus ulcer? - Answer Skin exam
HealthCare Effectiveness Data Information Set; a set of measures that must be used by
consumers and purchasers of healthcare to compare the performance of managed care
plans. What hospital department would enter and track this data? Answer Quality
Analyzing readmissions within a time frame for your hospital can be done by extracting
patients from the time period and looking for duplicates of what common attribute found
in clinical datasets? - Answer Medical record number
A hospital that is installing beside monitoring devices that must feed data into the
electronic health record should be sure to conform to which of the following standards?
- Answer DICOM(Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)
What entity is responsible for maintaining vital statistics data? - Answer State
,government
Which of the following items are packaged under the Medicare hospital outpatient
prospective payment system (HOPPS)? - Answer Surgical procedures
DRGs or MS-DRGs may be grouped into categories called - Answer MDCs (Major
Diagnostic Categories)
The amount of copay or deductible due from a patient is transmitted to the provider via a
- Answer claims processing code
If the total practice expense for a group is $1,500,000 and the total RVUs provided by
that practice is 125,000, what is the break even conversion factor? - Answer $12
Once all data are posted to a patient's account, the claim can be reviewed for accuracy
and completeness. Many facilities have internal auditing system that runs each claim
through a set of edits. These internal auditing systems are called - Answer Scrubber
Which information found on the chargemaster describes payment codes for services or
items, and is usually a three or four digit number? - Answer Revenue Code
Which of the following systems selection and implementation phases would the activity
of running a mock query to test the functionality of a database occur in? - Answer
Testing
Which of the national databases follows all discharged patients regardless of payer? -
Answer Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
OASIS data are used to evaluate the ____ of home health services. - Answer Outcomes
The federal initiative to collect data for research about the delivery and organization of
, healthcare in the United States is called ____. - Answer HCUP - Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project
Benchmarking may be used to ________ - Answer Determine areas of improvement
Mary Smith, RHIA has been asked to work on the development of a hospital trauma data
registry. Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing this
registry? Answer DEEDS (Data Elements for Emergency)
A patient born with a neural tube defect would be included in which type of registry?
Answer Birth Defects
Which work measurement tool utilizes random sample observations to secure
information regarding department performance as a whole? - Answer Work Sampling
Resource-based relative value (RBRVS) rates are calculated based upon practice,
expense, malpractice cost, and physician work and then adjusted by a - Answer
Geographical practice cost index
What would you call information that gives physicians relevant health information other
than that contained in the health record itself for choosing options of treatment?
-Answer Clinical practice guidelines
A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program facilitates correct coding and
allows coders to avoid -Answer using non-specific codes
Under RBRVS, which of the following components are combined to determine a
Medicare reimbursement? -Answer work value and practice expenses
Total fees received by Physician Group A is $130,500. If the break-even conversion
factor is $29.00, how many claims were paid? - Answer 4,500
The nominal group technique gives each member of the team an opportunity to select
the most important ideas from an affinity diagram. This technique allows groups to do
which of the following? - Answer Narrow the focus of discussion without extended
involvement
You have been asked to write a report to capture patient injuries by diagnosis code. To
find out which of the injuries occurred after the patient came into the hospital, you
would want to use the present on admission indicator. Which of the following indicators
would show you the injuries that occurred after the patient arrived to the hospital?
Answer N
Which of the following is a system which may include alerts, reminders, and links for
clinical care providers? - Answer Clinical decision support system
Which data element would be used to verify if the present on admission coding was
correct on a patient with an admitting diagnosis to decubitus ulcer? - Answer Skin exam
HealthCare Effectiveness Data Information Set; a set of measures that must be used by
consumers and purchasers of healthcare to compare the performance of managed care
plans. What hospital department would enter and track this data? Answer Quality
Analyzing readmissions within a time frame for your hospital can be done by extracting
patients from the time period and looking for duplicates of what common attribute found
in clinical datasets? - Answer Medical record number
A hospital that is installing beside monitoring devices that must feed data into the
electronic health record should be sure to conform to which of the following standards?
- Answer DICOM(Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)
What entity is responsible for maintaining vital statistics data? - Answer State
,government
Which of the following items are packaged under the Medicare hospital outpatient
prospective payment system (HOPPS)? - Answer Surgical procedures
DRGs or MS-DRGs may be grouped into categories called - Answer MDCs (Major
Diagnostic Categories)
The amount of copay or deductible due from a patient is transmitted to the provider via a
- Answer claims processing code
If the total practice expense for a group is $1,500,000 and the total RVUs provided by
that practice is 125,000, what is the break even conversion factor? - Answer $12
Once all data are posted to a patient's account, the claim can be reviewed for accuracy
and completeness. Many facilities have internal auditing system that runs each claim
through a set of edits. These internal auditing systems are called - Answer Scrubber
Which information found on the chargemaster describes payment codes for services or
items, and is usually a three or four digit number? - Answer Revenue Code
Which of the following systems selection and implementation phases would the activity
of running a mock query to test the functionality of a database occur in? - Answer
Testing
Which of the national databases follows all discharged patients regardless of payer? -
Answer Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
OASIS data are used to evaluate the ____ of home health services. - Answer Outcomes
The federal initiative to collect data for research about the delivery and organization of
, healthcare in the United States is called ____. - Answer HCUP - Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project
Benchmarking may be used to ________ - Answer Determine areas of improvement
Mary Smith, RHIA has been asked to work on the development of a hospital trauma data
registry. Which of the following data sets would be most helpful in developing this
registry? Answer DEEDS (Data Elements for Emergency)
A patient born with a neural tube defect would be included in which type of registry?
Answer Birth Defects
Which work measurement tool utilizes random sample observations to secure
information regarding department performance as a whole? - Answer Work Sampling
Resource-based relative value (RBRVS) rates are calculated based upon practice,
expense, malpractice cost, and physician work and then adjusted by a - Answer
Geographical practice cost index
What would you call information that gives physicians relevant health information other
than that contained in the health record itself for choosing options of treatment?
-Answer Clinical practice guidelines
A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program facilitates correct coding and
allows coders to avoid -Answer using non-specific codes
Under RBRVS, which of the following components are combined to determine a
Medicare reimbursement? -Answer work value and practice expenses
Total fees received by Physician Group A is $130,500. If the break-even conversion
factor is $29.00, how many claims were paid? - Answer 4,500
