Free AHIMA CDIP Exam Dumps Questions & Answers

What policies should query professionals follow?

• A.  CMS's policies related to querying
• B.  Their healthcare entity's internal policies related to querying
• C.  AHIMA's policies related to querying
• D.  All healthcare entity's policies are the same

The clinical documentation integrity (CDI) manager has noted a query response rate of 60%. The CDI practitioner reports that physicians often respond verbally to the query. What can be done to improve this rate?

• A.  Allow physician to respond via e-mail
• B.  Require physicians to document responses in charts
• C.  Permit CDI practitioners to document physician responses in the charts
• D.  Have CDI manager teaming with coding supervisor to monitor physician responses

A 94-year-old female patient is admitted with altered mental status and inability to move the left side of her body. She is diagnosed with a cerebral vascular accident with left sided weakness. The patient is ambidextrous, but the physician does not specify the predominance of the affected side. The default code is

• A.  preferred
• B.  ambidextrous
• C.  non-dominant
• D.  dominant

A 70-year-old severely malnourished nursing home patient is admitted for a pressure ulcer covered by eschar on the right hip. The provider is queried to clarify the stage of the pressure ulcer. Because the wound has not been debrided, the provider responds "unable to determine".
How will the stage of this pressure ulcer be coded?

• A.  Undetermined stage pressure ulcer
• B.  Stage IV pressure ulcer
• C.  Stage III pressure ulcer
• D.  Unstageable pressure ulcer

A query should be generated when the documentation is

• A.  legible
• B.  consistent
• C.  conflicting
• D.  complete