AHIMA RHIA Certification Sample Questions

The AHIMA Registered Health Information Administrator Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual AHIMA RHIA exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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AHIMA RHIA Sample Questions:

01. A facility is replacing its old photocopiers. The HIM Director insists that the hard drives in the copiers be "wiped" or physically destroyed before the machines are returned to the leasing company. This is a requirement of which HIPAA Security Rule standard?
a) Facility Access Controls
b) Access Control
c) Transmission Security
d) Device and Media Controls

02. A patient is prepped for an outpatient surgery and anesthesia is administered. Before the first incision, the patient's heart rate drops dangerously low, and the physician cancels the procedure. Which modifier should the hospital append to the procedure code to indicate the service was discontinued?
a) Modifier -59 (Distinct Procedural Service)
b) Modifier -52 (Reduced Services)
c) Modifier -74 (Discontinued Procedure After Anesthesia Administration)
d) Modifier -73 (Discontinued Procedure Prior to Anesthesia)

03. A researcher is studying a new drug. The "Null Hypothesis" (H0) states that the drug has no effect compared to a placebo. After the study, the researcher rejects the null hypothesis. What does this mean in plain English?
a) There is a statistically significant difference, suggesting the drug likely does have an effect.
b) The study was inconclusive and must be restarted.
c) There is no statistically significant difference between the drug and the placebo.
d) The drug was proven to be dangerous.

04. An HIM Director is evaluating a new MPI software that uses "probabilistic matching" to identify potential duplicate records. Which of the following best describes how this algorithm works?
a) It matches patients based solely on their medical record number.
b) It uses mathematical formulas to assign weights to data elements and determines the likelihood of a match.
c) It relies on the registration clerk to manually confirm every potential match before saving.
d) It requires an exact match on all data elements (e.g., Name, DOB, SSN).

05. During which phase of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) does the organization identify the "functional requirements" (what the users need the system to do)?
a) Maintenance Phase
b) Design Phase
c) Implementation Phase
d) Analysis Phase

06. In the HIPAA Security Rule, an "Addressable" implementation specification means that the covered entity:
a) Must only implement it if it costs less than $1,000.
b) Must evaluate if the specification is a reasonable and appropriate safeguard for its environment and implement it or an equivalent alternative.
c) Must implement the specification exactly as written in the law.
d) Can ignore the specification if they are a small provider.

07. The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to perform a periodic Risk Analysis. What is the primary goal of this process?
a) To rank physicians based on their coding accuracy.
b) To eliminate all possible risks of a data breach.
c) To determine the cost of a new EHR system.
d) To identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic PHI.

08. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide "Reasonable Accommodations" to qualified iniduals with disabilities, unless doing so would cause:
a) Any increase in the company's insurance premiums.
b) Other employees to become jealous.
c) An "Undue Hardship" on the operation of the business.
d) The manager to have to work harder.

09. Before moving data from an old legacy system into a new data warehouse, an analyst runs a script to identify and fix spelling errors, remove duplicate patient records, and standardize date formats (e.g., changing all instances of DD/MM/YY to MM/DD/YYYY). This process is known as:
a) Data Cleansing (Scrubbing)
b) Data Mining
c) Data Modeling
d) Data Encryption

10. A large health system acquires several independent hospitals. To ensure that "Patient," "Provider," and "Facility" data are consistent, accurate, and standardized across all disparate systems, the organization should implement:
a) Health Information Blocking
b) Master Data Management (MDM)
c) A local area network (LAN)
d) A decentralized data lake

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