The 80 hours of professional practice for Clinical Internship II must be completed by _________.

Postage charges in the Health Information Department have increased during the last quarter. The department director has seen metered envelopes in the mail bin that do not appear to be those used for departmental business. The best course of action for the director would be to

The HIM director has been asked to monitor the hospital’s “Do Not Use” abbreviation policy for health record documentation. Which of the following monitoring actions would best ensure that a medication error would be caught before an adverse incident occurs?

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

If you want to begin with the type of material that has the highest error rate, you will start by working on problems with

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?

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?

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 _____.