CHDA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
(GRADED A+)
Which of the following indexes and databases includes patient identifiable information?
MEDLINE
Clinical Trials Database
Master population/patient index
UMLS
UMLS-Unified Medical Language Systems
HIM departments may be the hub of identifying, mitigating, and correcting MPI errors, but that
information often is not shared with other departments within the healthcare entity. After identifying
procedural problems that contribute to the creation of the MPI errors, which department should the
MPI manager work with to correct these procedural problems?
Registration or patient access
The inpatient data set incorporated into federal law and required for Medicare reporting is the...
UHDDS-Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
Standardized sets of valid, reliable, and evidence-based measures implemented by the Joint
Commissions are called...
Core (performance) measures
The computer-based process of extracting, quantifying, and filtering discrete data that reside in a
relational database is called...
Data mining
In terms of grouping and reimbursement, how are the MS-LTC-DRGs and acute care MS-DRGs similar?
Organized into MDCs
Which of the following is not a valid use of the relative weight assigned to each MS-DRG?
Measure of cost of living
The leader of the coding performance improvement team wants all team members to clearly
understand the coding process. What tool could help accomplish this objective?
Flowchart
Which of the following elements is found in a charge description master?
Procedure or service charge
An audit tracking database would contain information from the healthcare claim payment advice that
is in what format?
, 835-returns payment information reported on paper EOB/PRAs to the provider/clearinghouse, in an
electronic format.
Data showing a physician's professional fee charges would be found on which billing format?
CMS-1500
The practice of "normalization" of a database prevents duplication of data elements and ensures the
data conforms to a standard. There are three forms of normalization. The THIRD normal form
requires...
Eliminating fields that do not depend on the key
Which of the following is the process of refining a data model to reduce redundant storage of
information and best describe the data and its relationships?
Normalization
You need to interface data automatically from one clinical system to another. Which framework is
most commonly used for this purpose in healthcare systems?
HL7-Health Level 7, a range of global standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data
between applications
An executive has asked you to provide a single report that requires you to draw from data in multiple
tables within a SQL-compliant database. What SQL operator will allow you to do this?
JOIN
In healthcare, one of the primary uses for data warehouses is...
Outcomes management
The most basic, or core, element in an information system is the...
Data
The first level of HCPCS consists of...
CPT-Current Procedural Terminology
HCPCS-Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
ICD-10-CM is an example of...
Clinical classification
In SNOMED-CT, this term is used to describe how concepts are linked to on another...
Mapping
SNOMED-Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine
The process by which concepts and terms in one system are associated with concepts and terms in
another system is called...
(GRADED A+)
Which of the following indexes and databases includes patient identifiable information?
MEDLINE
Clinical Trials Database
Master population/patient index
UMLS
UMLS-Unified Medical Language Systems
HIM departments may be the hub of identifying, mitigating, and correcting MPI errors, but that
information often is not shared with other departments within the healthcare entity. After identifying
procedural problems that contribute to the creation of the MPI errors, which department should the
MPI manager work with to correct these procedural problems?
Registration or patient access
The inpatient data set incorporated into federal law and required for Medicare reporting is the...
UHDDS-Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
Standardized sets of valid, reliable, and evidence-based measures implemented by the Joint
Commissions are called...
Core (performance) measures
The computer-based process of extracting, quantifying, and filtering discrete data that reside in a
relational database is called...
Data mining
In terms of grouping and reimbursement, how are the MS-LTC-DRGs and acute care MS-DRGs similar?
Organized into MDCs
Which of the following is not a valid use of the relative weight assigned to each MS-DRG?
Measure of cost of living
The leader of the coding performance improvement team wants all team members to clearly
understand the coding process. What tool could help accomplish this objective?
Flowchart
Which of the following elements is found in a charge description master?
Procedure or service charge
An audit tracking database would contain information from the healthcare claim payment advice that
is in what format?
, 835-returns payment information reported on paper EOB/PRAs to the provider/clearinghouse, in an
electronic format.
Data showing a physician's professional fee charges would be found on which billing format?
CMS-1500
The practice of "normalization" of a database prevents duplication of data elements and ensures the
data conforms to a standard. There are three forms of normalization. The THIRD normal form
requires...
Eliminating fields that do not depend on the key
Which of the following is the process of refining a data model to reduce redundant storage of
information and best describe the data and its relationships?
Normalization
You need to interface data automatically from one clinical system to another. Which framework is
most commonly used for this purpose in healthcare systems?
HL7-Health Level 7, a range of global standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data
between applications
An executive has asked you to provide a single report that requires you to draw from data in multiple
tables within a SQL-compliant database. What SQL operator will allow you to do this?
JOIN
In healthcare, one of the primary uses for data warehouses is...
Outcomes management
The most basic, or core, element in an information system is the...
Data
The first level of HCPCS consists of...
CPT-Current Procedural Terminology
HCPCS-Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
ICD-10-CM is an example of...
Clinical classification
In SNOMED-CT, this term is used to describe how concepts are linked to on another...
Mapping
SNOMED-Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine
The process by which concepts and terms in one system are associated with concepts and terms in
another system is called...
