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RHIT Exam Prep (Coding) | 2025/2026 Latest Edition
| Actual Exam Questions with Correct Answers |
Graded A+
Leaders of a healthcare org are expected to select org-wide perf imp
approach and to clearly define how all levels of the org will monitor and
addr imp issues. TJC req's ongoing data collection that might req imp for
what possible areas? - CORRECT ANSWER=operative and other
invasive procedures, medication management, blood, and blood product
us
HIM director is est benchmarks for all divisions within its dept, so
director found sample productivity benchmarks through literature
search. How should the director proceed in est'ing benchmark for the
dept? - CORRECT ANSWER=Determine whether source of the
benchmark data is from a comparable institution
Risk mgr's principal tool for capturing facts abt potentially compensable
events is the: - CORRECT ANSWER=Occurrence report
What are positive statements that apply to systems thinking? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Problems in patient care are usually symptoms
of shortcomings that are part of a system or process, systems thinking is
a vital part of performance improvement, every system has inputs and
outputs, and the processing of inputs eventually produces outputs
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What is a negative statement that apply to systems thinking? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Variations in the way a system works are always
caused by factors outside the system
What is system thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER=objective way of
looking at work-related ideas and processes with the goal of allowing
people to uncover ineffective patterns of behavior and thinking and then
finding ways to make lasting improvements
Medical staff is aggregate of phys who have been granted permission to
provide clinical serv in hosp, so what is this permission called? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Clinical privileges
Nat'l pt safety goals score orgs on areas that: - CORRECT
ANSWER=Commonly lead to patient injury
Pt req's copy of health records but HIM clerk finds records are stored
off-site, so what actions must hosp take to be in HIPAA compliance? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Provides copies of records within 60 days
Best definition of confidentiality is: - CORRECT ANSWER=The
expectation that personal information shared by an individual with a
healthcare provider during the course of care will be used only for its
intended purpose
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Medical grp prac has contracted w/HIM professional to help define
prac's legal health record, so what should the HIM professional perform
first to ID components of the legal health record? - CORRECT
ANSWER=Develop list statutes, regulations, rules, and guidelines that
contain req's affecting the release of health records
Record custodian typically can testify about what when a party in a legal
proceeding is attempting to admit a health record as evidence? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Identification of the record as the one
subpeonaed
After appropriate dx and procedural codes are assigned what must be
performed for the provider to be reimb in a fee-for-service pymt
arrangement? - CORRECT ANSWER=Assign a fee to each service
from the provider's standard fee schedule
Pt adm to ABC Hosp and 2 days later transferred to DEF Hosp for
further eval and tx. Pt discharged home after 3 days. What pymt will
ABC Hosp will receive from Medicare? - CORRECT ANSWER=A per
diem rate for 2 day stay, and DEF Hosp will receive the full DRG pymt
Health record tech is asked to review discharge pt abstracting module of
proposed new EHR, so what would tech consult to ensure system
collects all fed req discharge data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts
in acute-care hosp? - CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Hospital
Discharge Data Set (UHDDS)
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Outpt clinic reviews functionality of EHR it is considering purchasing,
so what should the clinic consult that ensure all fed recommended data
elements for Medicare, Medicaid outpts are collected by system? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS)
Standard med term to avoid diff in naming various health conds and
procedures is one purpose of: - CORRECT ANSWER=Vocabulary
standards
Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in health record to: - CORRECT
ANSWER=Evaluate patterns and trends of patient care
Active storage area for health records at a hosp is almost full, so to
create more space, what should they do: - CORRECT ANSWER=Purge
oldest records to another location
As part of initiative to imp data integrity, Data Quality Committee
(DQC) conducted inventory of all hosp's databases and found that 70%+
of ID'd databases did not have dictionaries. What should be committee's
first action? - CORRECT ANSWER=Establish a data dictionary policy
with associated standards
Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and DQC is studying comparability
among databases (DB). Data elements and definitions are cataloged for
each DB, so what should their next step be to determine the degree of
data comparability among DBs? - CORRECT ANSWER=Select rep set
RHIT Exam Prep (Coding) | 2025/2026 Latest Edition
| Actual Exam Questions with Correct Answers |
Graded A+
Leaders of a healthcare org are expected to select org-wide perf imp
approach and to clearly define how all levels of the org will monitor and
addr imp issues. TJC req's ongoing data collection that might req imp for
what possible areas? - CORRECT ANSWER=operative and other
invasive procedures, medication management, blood, and blood product
us
HIM director is est benchmarks for all divisions within its dept, so
director found sample productivity benchmarks through literature
search. How should the director proceed in est'ing benchmark for the
dept? - CORRECT ANSWER=Determine whether source of the
benchmark data is from a comparable institution
Risk mgr's principal tool for capturing facts abt potentially compensable
events is the: - CORRECT ANSWER=Occurrence report
What are positive statements that apply to systems thinking? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Problems in patient care are usually symptoms
of shortcomings that are part of a system or process, systems thinking is
a vital part of performance improvement, every system has inputs and
outputs, and the processing of inputs eventually produces outputs
,2|Page
What is a negative statement that apply to systems thinking? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Variations in the way a system works are always
caused by factors outside the system
What is system thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER=objective way of
looking at work-related ideas and processes with the goal of allowing
people to uncover ineffective patterns of behavior and thinking and then
finding ways to make lasting improvements
Medical staff is aggregate of phys who have been granted permission to
provide clinical serv in hosp, so what is this permission called? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Clinical privileges
Nat'l pt safety goals score orgs on areas that: - CORRECT
ANSWER=Commonly lead to patient injury
Pt req's copy of health records but HIM clerk finds records are stored
off-site, so what actions must hosp take to be in HIPAA compliance? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Provides copies of records within 60 days
Best definition of confidentiality is: - CORRECT ANSWER=The
expectation that personal information shared by an individual with a
healthcare provider during the course of care will be used only for its
intended purpose
,3|Page
Medical grp prac has contracted w/HIM professional to help define
prac's legal health record, so what should the HIM professional perform
first to ID components of the legal health record? - CORRECT
ANSWER=Develop list statutes, regulations, rules, and guidelines that
contain req's affecting the release of health records
Record custodian typically can testify about what when a party in a legal
proceeding is attempting to admit a health record as evidence? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Identification of the record as the one
subpeonaed
After appropriate dx and procedural codes are assigned what must be
performed for the provider to be reimb in a fee-for-service pymt
arrangement? - CORRECT ANSWER=Assign a fee to each service
from the provider's standard fee schedule
Pt adm to ABC Hosp and 2 days later transferred to DEF Hosp for
further eval and tx. Pt discharged home after 3 days. What pymt will
ABC Hosp will receive from Medicare? - CORRECT ANSWER=A per
diem rate for 2 day stay, and DEF Hosp will receive the full DRG pymt
Health record tech is asked to review discharge pt abstracting module of
proposed new EHR, so what would tech consult to ensure system
collects all fed req discharge data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts
in acute-care hosp? - CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Hospital
Discharge Data Set (UHDDS)
, 4|Page
Outpt clinic reviews functionality of EHR it is considering purchasing,
so what should the clinic consult that ensure all fed recommended data
elements for Medicare, Medicaid outpts are collected by system? -
CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS)
Standard med term to avoid diff in naming various health conds and
procedures is one purpose of: - CORRECT ANSWER=Vocabulary
standards
Pt care mgrs use data and info doc'd in health record to: - CORRECT
ANSWER=Evaluate patterns and trends of patient care
Active storage area for health records at a hosp is almost full, so to
create more space, what should they do: - CORRECT ANSWER=Purge
oldest records to another location
As part of initiative to imp data integrity, Data Quality Committee
(DQC) conducted inventory of all hosp's databases and found that 70%+
of ID'd databases did not have dictionaries. What should be committee's
first action? - CORRECT ANSWER=Establish a data dictionary policy
with associated standards
Hosp has 100+ clinical databases and DQC is studying comparability
among databases (DB). Data elements and definitions are cataloged for
each DB, so what should their next step be to determine the degree of
data comparability among DBs? - CORRECT ANSWER=Select rep set
