A hospital interested in finding out if a physician has any adverse licensure actions should review data from: 

In your state, it is legal for minors to seek medical treatment for a sexually transmitted disease without parental consent. When this occurs, who would be expected to authorize the release of the medical information documented in this episode of care to the patient’s insurers?

As the Information Security Officer at your facility, you have been asked to provide examples of the physical safeguards used to manage data security measures throughout the organization. Which of the following would you provide?

The MS-DRG weight in a particular case is 2.0671 and the hospital’s payment rate is $3,027. How much would the hospital receive as reimbursement in this case?

An HIM Department Budget Report for May shows a payroll budget of $25,000 and an actual payroll expense of $22,345. The percentage of budget variance for the month is:

Students are not to be substituted for paid staff during any practicum assignment.  They may be permitted to perform procedures or duties under careful _____.

A patient’s husband slipped and fell in your HIM reception area and now he is suing the facility. You have to prepare detailed written answers to a long list of questions and send them to your hospital attorney. You will spend the afternoon working on

Two coders have found the same abbreviation (CO) in two records.  One abbreviation means carbon monoxide in a patient with respiratory complaints.  The other means cardiac output in a heart patient’s record.  This indicates a problem with which data quality characteristic in these records?  

The difference between an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and a hospital’s Ethics Committee is that

You are providing an educational session to new hires at your hospital. You tell the new employees that hospital records may be used as evidence in court even though hearsay laws bar the use of most evidence that does not represent personal knowledge of the witness. That is because the hospital record