RAD400 EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is a Facility? Answer: A record that represents the entire
organization. There is one facility record.
Settings in more specific levels will override settings in the facility
record.
⩥ What is a Service Area? Answer: Separate business entities within the
organization. Exists mainly for Epic's billing applications.
Can also prohibit staff in individual locations from accessing other
locations' confident information, such as revenue data.
⩥ What is a Location? Answer: AKA revenue location, this represents
clinics and hospitals. Each revenue location is linked to a service area.
If patient can go in and be billed, this is a revenue location.
⩥ What is a Department? Answer: Represents places where users log in
or where patients receive care at your organization.
⩥ How does department influence a Radiant build? Answer:
Departments determine where procedures are scheduled and performed
Providers and resources are only schedulable in specific departments.
,Schedules of availability are specific to both a provider/resource and a
department.
⩥ T/F: You build out a separate department record for each type of
modality at your location. Answer: True
⩥ What is an HOD? Answer: Hospital Outpatient Department, where
clinicians in these departments see both inpatients and outpatients,
requiring the use of both inpatient and outpatient tools.
⩥ What is an HOV? Answer: Hospital Outpatient Visit. Special type of
encounter for HODs, they are hospital encounters that are scheduled like
outpatient encounters, which allow clinicians to use inpatient tools in an
outpatient setting.
⩥ What happens when a clinician accesses an appointment in an HOD?
Answer: Conversion: opens new HOV. Appropriate for outpatients.
OR
Redirection: Opens existing hospital chart. Unique to HODs and
typically for admitted patients.
⩥ What are key imaging-related settings in the Department master file?
Answer: External Name
Specialty
Center
,Rev Location
EpicCare Department Information: Default Profile for Workstations in
Department Field
Context-based Charging: Technical, Professional, Global
HOD Settings: Parent hospital/clinic area, Is this department an HOD?
Radiology/Cardiology Settings: Default Charge Source
Radiology/Cardiology Reading Roles: Provider Reading Roles
⩥ What is the function of External Name? Answer: This will appear on
patient-facing correspondence, such as appointment reminder letters.
⩥ What is the function of Specialty? Answer: Used to ensure that only
users with appropriate login context can schedule radiology exams
⩥ What is the function of Center? Answer: HAS NO REVENUE
IMPLICATIONS. Used to group departments geographically to make
scheduling more efficient.
⩥ What is the function of Rev Location? Answer: Linking a department
to a revenue location in the facility structure.
Once it is done, you cannot modify the field since this field affects
revenue stream, and changing that link causes major issues with charge
routing.
, IF IT IS WRONG, YOU MUST CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT
RECORD.
⩥ What is the function of Default Profile for Workstations in
Department Field (EpicCare)? Answer: Attach a profile record with
clinical settings specific to users who log in to this department.
⩥ What is the function of Technical, Professional, Global charges?
Answer: Technical: charges that cover the cost of using equipment,
facilities,non-physician medical staff, supplies, etc.
Professional: charges that cover the cost of the physician's professional
services.
Global: charges that covers both technical and professional services.
⩥ What is the function of Parent hospital/clinic area (HOD settings)?
Answer: This settings links department to revenue location for ADT
purposes
⩥ What is the function of Is this department an HOD (HOD settings)?
Answer: If yes, this will apply the standard HOD settings, which tell the
system to either convert the appointment for outpatients, or redirect to
the current admission for inpatients.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What is a Facility? Answer: A record that represents the entire
organization. There is one facility record.
Settings in more specific levels will override settings in the facility
record.
⩥ What is a Service Area? Answer: Separate business entities within the
organization. Exists mainly for Epic's billing applications.
Can also prohibit staff in individual locations from accessing other
locations' confident information, such as revenue data.
⩥ What is a Location? Answer: AKA revenue location, this represents
clinics and hospitals. Each revenue location is linked to a service area.
If patient can go in and be billed, this is a revenue location.
⩥ What is a Department? Answer: Represents places where users log in
or where patients receive care at your organization.
⩥ How does department influence a Radiant build? Answer:
Departments determine where procedures are scheduled and performed
Providers and resources are only schedulable in specific departments.
,Schedules of availability are specific to both a provider/resource and a
department.
⩥ T/F: You build out a separate department record for each type of
modality at your location. Answer: True
⩥ What is an HOD? Answer: Hospital Outpatient Department, where
clinicians in these departments see both inpatients and outpatients,
requiring the use of both inpatient and outpatient tools.
⩥ What is an HOV? Answer: Hospital Outpatient Visit. Special type of
encounter for HODs, they are hospital encounters that are scheduled like
outpatient encounters, which allow clinicians to use inpatient tools in an
outpatient setting.
⩥ What happens when a clinician accesses an appointment in an HOD?
Answer: Conversion: opens new HOV. Appropriate for outpatients.
OR
Redirection: Opens existing hospital chart. Unique to HODs and
typically for admitted patients.
⩥ What are key imaging-related settings in the Department master file?
Answer: External Name
Specialty
Center
,Rev Location
EpicCare Department Information: Default Profile for Workstations in
Department Field
Context-based Charging: Technical, Professional, Global
HOD Settings: Parent hospital/clinic area, Is this department an HOD?
Radiology/Cardiology Settings: Default Charge Source
Radiology/Cardiology Reading Roles: Provider Reading Roles
⩥ What is the function of External Name? Answer: This will appear on
patient-facing correspondence, such as appointment reminder letters.
⩥ What is the function of Specialty? Answer: Used to ensure that only
users with appropriate login context can schedule radiology exams
⩥ What is the function of Center? Answer: HAS NO REVENUE
IMPLICATIONS. Used to group departments geographically to make
scheduling more efficient.
⩥ What is the function of Rev Location? Answer: Linking a department
to a revenue location in the facility structure.
Once it is done, you cannot modify the field since this field affects
revenue stream, and changing that link causes major issues with charge
routing.
, IF IT IS WRONG, YOU MUST CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT
RECORD.
⩥ What is the function of Default Profile for Workstations in
Department Field (EpicCare)? Answer: Attach a profile record with
clinical settings specific to users who log in to this department.
⩥ What is the function of Technical, Professional, Global charges?
Answer: Technical: charges that cover the cost of using equipment,
facilities,non-physician medical staff, supplies, etc.
Professional: charges that cover the cost of the physician's professional
services.
Global: charges that covers both technical and professional services.
⩥ What is the function of Parent hospital/clinic area (HOD settings)?
Answer: This settings links department to revenue location for ADT
purposes
⩥ What is the function of Is this department an HOD (HOD settings)?
Answer: If yes, this will apply the standard HOD settings, which tell the
system to either convert the appointment for outpatients, or redirect to
the current admission for inpatients.
