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RHIT EXAM PREP CODING 2026 2027 LATEST
EDITION ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ HIGH YIELD
STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL UPDATED PRACTICE
QUESTIONS CERTIFICATION EXAM
PREPARATION SUCCESS REVIEW BRAND NEW
VERSION
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? -
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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
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
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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
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
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fed req discharge data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care
hosp? - CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
(UHDDS)
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
RHIT EXAM PREP CODING 2026 2027 LATEST
EDITION ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ HIGH YIELD
STUDY GUIDE ACTUAL UPDATED PRACTICE
QUESTIONS CERTIFICATION EXAM
PREPARATION SUCCESS REVIEW BRAND NEW
VERSION
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? -
,2 | Page
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
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
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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
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
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fed req discharge data elements for Medicare, Medicaid inpts in acute-care
hosp? - CORRECT ANSWER=Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
(UHDDS)
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
