RHIA

RHIA practice questions, page 22 of 73, with answer review and explanations.

Question 106

A new Health Information Department has purchased 200 units of 6-shelf files and plants to implement a terminal digit filing system. How many shelves should be allocated to each primary number?

  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 10
  4. 12

Question 107

A 200-bed acute care hospital currently has 15 years of records in hard copy and filing space is limited. What action should be taken?

  1. Return inactive records to each individual patient.
  2. Destroy records of all deceased patients.
  3. Destroy inactive records that exceed the statute of limitations.
  4. Maintain the records indefinitely in hard copy.

Question 108

Which filing system would provide the most convenient method for the record retrieval of 200 patients consecutively admitted to the hospital?

  1. terminal digit
  2. unit.
  3. straight numeric
  4. serial unit.

Question 109

What is the chief criterion for determining record inactivity?

  1. Medicare’s definition of inactivity
  2. amount of space available for storage of newer records
  3. efficiency of microfilming
  4. preference of the medical staff

Question 110

Out of 2,543 records requested from the HIM Department, 2375 were located. What is the filing accuracy ratio?

  1. 6.61%
  2. 75.33%
  3. 89.01%
  4. 93.39%