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RHIT 9 Exam Prep/ Actual Exam Questions with Correct Verified Answers/ Rated A+
When is it appropriate to use the category V10, history of malignant neoplasm? - ANSWER - primary malignancy has been eradicated and no adjunct treatment is being given at the time
In order to use the inpatient CPT consultation codes, the consulting physician must... - ANSWER - document his findings in the patients medical record
The best place to ascertain the size of an excised lesion for accurate CPT codes is the ___ ___. - ANSWER - operative report
What is expected to enable hospitals to collect more specific information for use in patient care, benchmarking, quality assessment, research, public health reporting, strategic planning, and reimbursement? - ANSWER - ICD-10-CM
Case definition is important for all types of registries. Age will certainly be important criterion for accessing a case in a(n) ____ ___ registry. - ANSWER - birth defects
To gather statistics for surgical services provided on an outpatient bases, which type of codes are needed? - ANSWER - CPT
The Cancer Committee at your hospital requests a list of all patients entered into your cancer registry in the last year. This information would be obtained by checking the ___ ___. - ANSWER - accession register
The reference date for a cancer registry is.. - ANSWER - the date when data collection begins 1 / 3
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The abstract completed on the patients in your hospital contains the following items: patient demographics, prehospital interventions, vital signs on admission, procedures and treatment prior to hospitalization, transport modality, and injury severity score. The hospital uses these data for its ___ ___. - ANSWER - trauma registry
In relation to birth defects registries, active surveillance systems use of trained staff to identify cases through review of these four sources. - ANSWER - patient records, indexes, vital records, hospital logs
In regard to quality of coding, the degree to which the same results (same codes) are obtained by different coders or on multiple attempts by the same coder refers to ___. - ANSWER - reliability
The HCUP consists of a set of databases that include data on inpatients whose care is paid for my TPPs. HCUP is an initiative of the ____ __ ____ ___ __ ____. - ANSWER - agency for healthcare research and quality
HCUP - ANSWER - healthcare cost and utilization project
The coding supervisor notices that the coders are routinely failing to code all possible diagnoses and procedures for a patient encounter. This indicates to the supervisor that there is a problem with ____. - ANSWER - completeness
When coding free skin grafts, what are three essential items of data necessary for accurate coding? - ANSWER - recipient site, size of defect, type of repair
In CPT, Category III codes includes codes to describe ___ ___. - ANSWER - emerging technologies
The information collected for your registry includes patient demographic information, diagnosis codes, functional status, and histocompatibility information. This type of registry is a ___ ____. - ANSWER - transplant registry 2 / 3
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In the ICD-9-CM classification system, shooting pain the right eye due to the presence of an intact, correctly positioned permanent contact lens would be coded as a(n) - ANSWER - abnormal reaction of the body to the presence of an internal prosthetic advice
In the ICD-9-CM classification system, severe shock due to third-degree burns sustained in an industrial accident would be coded as a(n) ___ ___. - ANSWER - current injury
In the ICD-9-CM classification system, a nonfunctioning pacemaker due to the disintegration of the electrodes (leads) would be coded as a(n).. - ANSWER - mechanical complication of an internal prosthetic device
In the ICD-9-CM classification system, an esophageal structure due to a burn received in a house fire several years ago would be coded as a(n) ___ __. - ANSWER - late effect
Dizziness and blurred vision following ingestion and prescribed Allegra and a glass of wine at dinner would be reported as a(n) ____. - ANSWER - poisoning
Tachycardia after taking a correct dosage of prescribed Lortab would be reported as a(n) ____ ___ __ __ ___. - ANSWER - adverse reaction to a drug
Blindness due to an allergic reaction to ampicillin administered 6 years ago would be reported as a(n) - ANSWER - late effect of an adverse reaction
The method of calculating errors in a coding audit that allows for benchmarking with other hospitals, and permits the reviewer to track errors by case type, is the ___ ___ ___ __. - ANSWER - record over record method
The most common type of registry located in hospitals of all sizes and in every region of the country is the ___ ____. - ANSWER - cancer registry
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