CIC Inpatient Coding Study Exam questions with correct answers

Your hospital uses and EHR for all documentation of all services, including coding and billing. Your town is hit with a tornado and your hospital is badly damaged including the servers, network connections and computers. How do you provide medical records for patients transferred to other facilities for their care? CORRECT ANSWER-You obtain copes from your disaster recovery server because HIPAA requires records to be secure and protected you have to have a downtime process in place for facilities with EHR's and you have a disaster recovery pan in place. This may include a disaster recovery company that houses your data and provides you with backup equipment in times of a disaster or you have off-site storage to get copies of needed medical information. Which of the following describes a violation of HIPAA's privacy rule? CORRECT ANSWER-A nurse and an orderly at a state hospital discussed the HIV/AIDS status of a patient in earshot of other patients Which of the following diseases is a malignancy of the lymphatic system? CORRECT ANSWER-Hodgkin's disease A drug which ends in the suffix -pril is considered a(n) CORRECT ANSWER-ACE inhibitor A drug which ends in the suffix -vir is considered a(n) CORRECT ANSWER-Antiviral A drug which ends in the suffix -olol is considered a(n) CORRECT ANSWER-Beta blocker