WGU D033 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT EXAM 250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

WGU D033 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT 2023-2024 EXAM

250 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

|ALREADY GRADED A+

Joe works in a facility that collects the billing data from a local hospital. His

company processes the data for the hospital and submits the claims to the different

health plans for payment. Where does Joe work?

a) HIE (health information exchange)

b) data warehouse

c) healthcare clearinghouse

d) insurance company - ANSWER- c

Choose 2 reasons why IT staff want no redundancy

a) when redundant data is updated, it needs to be updated in more than 1 place

b) sorting the same data more than once in the database takes up space

c) users are unsure where to find data

d) redundant data is confusing to end users - ANSWER- a, b

What is the term for "cleaning up" the redundancy in the database?

a) reengineering

b) data mining

c) normalization

d) data amendments - ANSWER- c

It appears that billers are finding bills with incomplete coding and with

documentation gaps. The HIM director recognizes that they've been short staffed in

the coding department but needs to address this issue. What is this problem called?

a) clinical documentation gapping

b) discharged not final billed

c) lack of coding analysis

d) qualitative process issues - ANSWER- d

You are comparing monthly data from the past year obtained from the

immunization registry at your hospital in order to draw conclusions on the need for

greater marketing initiatives in promoting the pneumonia vaccine to those 65 years

of age and older. What function are you performing?

a) data cleansing

b) data quality control

c) data accessibility

d) data analytics - ANSWER- d

An organization recently experienced a breach of PHI and hired an outside

consultant to help them identify potential future problems. The consultant found

them lacking in the area of internal fraud surveillance. Which of these will best

help the organization to address this issue?

a) conduct risk assessments on a scheduled basis

b) change passwords monthly

c) use badge scanners to enter treatment areas

d) monthly HIPAA training - ANSWER- a

The human resource director is providing training to a group of new employees

and is explaining federal legislation that impacts their work. He is discussing how

the government mandated the development of transaction and code set standards

for electronic health records. To what legislation is the HR director referring?

a) To Err is Human

b) Prospective Payment Act

c) Balanced Budget Act

d) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - ANSWER- d

A physician in FL is consulting with a medical school colleague who lives in CP

about a patient with a rare type of stomach cancer. The oncologist in CO suggests

the use of their telemedicine platforms to share images, videos, and other medical

data the FL physician has gathered on this patient. The oncologist will evaluate the

case material as soon as possible and provide his diagnosis and suggested

treatment plan. What is this process using the telemedicine platform called?

a) clinical diagnostic pathways

b) store & forward

c) telemedical analysis

d) quality care - ANSWER- b

Organization leaders are reviewing the status of key performance indicators for

their facility. They are examining revenue cycle, patient satisfaction, average

length of stay, and other trends. What are they reviewing that will provide this

information?

a) predictive modeling results

b) the annual report

c) data mining reports

d) the dashboard - ANSWER- d

In 2021 there was a hacking incident at the FL health plan, Florida Healthy Kinds

Corporation (FHKC). The breach was reported in Jan. 2021 and was due to the

failure of a security vendor to apply patches to fix multiple vulnerabilities on the

FHKC website over a period of 7 years. Hackers had access to the website for

years and potentially stole information like social security numbers and financial

information. Some of the data was also tampered with. The analysis of the breach

revealed the personal and protected health info of 3.5 million individuals were

exposed

a) the breach did not need to be reported to the Attorney General's office b/c of

they type of information exposed

b) the breach did need to be reported to the Attorney General's office b/c it was a

failure by a security vendor, not FHKC

c) the breach did need to be reported to the Secretary of the DHHS b/c it was a

failure by a security vendor

d) the breach did need to be reported to the Secretary of the DHHS b/c more than

500 individuals were affected - ANSWER- d

Community hospital is planning implementation of various elements of the EHR in

the next 6 months. Physicians have requested the ability to access the EHR from

their offices and from home. What advice should the HIM director provide?

a) HIPAA regulations do not allow this type of access

b) this access would be covered under the release of PHI for treatment purposes

and poses no security or confidentiality threats

c) access can be permitted providing that appropriate safeguards are put in place to

protect against threats to security

d) access cannot be permitted because the physicians would not be accessing

information for treatment purposes - ANSWER- c

The project manager for the EHR implementation informed the IT staff it was time

to do testing to ensure the new information system could handle the amount of data

and # of users at the healthcare facility. This is known as?

a) volume testing