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 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
