RHIA

RHIA practice questions, page 47 of 73, with answer review and explanations.

Question 231

The Central Officer on ICD-9-CM, which publishes Coding Clinic, is maintained by the

  1. National Center for Health Statistics.
  2. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  3. American Hospital Association.
  4. American Health Information Management Associations

Question 232

A nomenclature of codes and medical terms and that provides standard terminology for reporting physicians’ services for third-party reimbursement is

  1. Current Medical Information and Terminology (CMIT).
  2. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT).
  3. Systemized Nomenclature of Pathology (SNOP).
  4. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Question 233

A cancer program is surveyed for approval by the

  1. American Cancer Society
  2. Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
  3. State Department of Health
  4. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations

Question 234

The nursing staff would most likely use which of the following to facilitate aggregation of data for comparison at local, regional, national, and international levels?

  1. READ codes.
  2. ABC codes.
  3. SPECIALIST Lexicon.
  4. LOINC.

Question 235

The Level II (national) codes of the HCPCS coding system are maintained by the

  1. American Medical Association.
  2. CPT Editorial Panel
  3. Local fiscal intermediary
  4. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.