QUESTION: 13

Besides the physician advisor/champion, who should be included as a key stakeholder in the clinical documentation integrity (CDI) steering committee to promote CDI initiatives?

Director of Risk Management
Manager of Surgical Services
Manager of HIM/Coding
Director of Informatics

Answer(s): C

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QUESTION: 14

A clinical documentation integrity practitioner (CDIP) hired by an internal medicine clinic is creating policies governing written queries. What is an AHIMA best practice for these policies?

Primary care physicians must answer written queries
Non-responses to written queries are grounds for discipline
Queries are limited to non-leading questions
Queries for illegible chart notes are unnecessary

Answer(s): C

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A hospital administrator has hired a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) firm to improve its revenue objectives. The physicians object to this action. How should the firm collaborate with physicians to overcome their objections?

Identify an influential physician advisor/champion to promote support
Hire a consultant to communicate the benefits to the physicians
Create a vision statement that outlines the project objectives
Communicate the benefits of the CDI firm about the project

Answer(s): A

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QUESTION: 16

A patient is admitted due to pneumonia. On day 1, a sputum culture is positive for pseudomonas bacteria. If the physician is queried and agrees that the patient has pseudomonas pneumonia, this specificity would:

increase relative weight
not meet medical necessity
not increase relative weight
meet medical necessity

Answer(s): D

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