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Free AHIMA CDIP Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 4

Questions 31

Which of the following individuals is the first line of escalation for an unanswered query?

Options:
A.

CDI Manager

B.

CDI Steering Committee

C.

Medical Director

D.

HIM/Coding Manager

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Questions 32

Which of the following is used to measure the impact of a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) program on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services quality performance?

Options:
A.

Risk of mortality

B.

Case mix index

C.

Severity of illness

D.

Outcome measures

Questions 33

Which of the following is considered a hospital-acquired condition if not present on admission?

Options:
A.

Air leak

B.

Diabetes with hypoglycemia

C.

Stage I and II pressure ulcers

D.

Blood incompatibility

Questions 34

Which of the following demonstrates the relative severity and complexity of patient treated in the hospital, and is used to evaluate the financial impact of a hospital's

clinical documentation integrity (CDI) program?

Options:
A.

Hospital acquired conditions

B.

Program for evaluating payment patterns electronic report

C.

Present on admission indicators

D.

Adjusted case mix index

Questions 35

Reviewing and analyzing physician query content on a regular basis

Options:
A.

helps to calculate query response rate

B.

aids in discussion between physician and reviewer

C.

assists in identifying gaps in skills and knowledge

D.

facilitates physician data collection

Questions 36

A 75-year-old, diabetic patient with a history of osteoporosis, being treated with Fosamax, who sustained a femur fracture after falling down three stairs. The provider's documentation indicates to admit the patient for a traumatic femur fracture and an

orthopedics consult is pending. The clinical documentation integrity practitioner (CDIP) decides to query for a possible link between osteoporosis and the femur fracture. Which of the following is the most compliant query based on the most recent

AHIMA/ACDIS query practice brief?

Options:
A.

Patient admitted for a femur fracture with a history of osteoporosis being treated with Fosamax. In your medical opinion, is this fracture consistent with an osteoporotic pathological fracture?

B.

Patient admitted for a femur fracture with a history of osteoporosis being treated with Fosamax. Please clarify the cause of the femur fracture in your next note and/or the discharge summary.

C.

Patient admitted for a femur fracture with a history of osteoporosis being treated with Fosamax. Could diabetes be a contributing factor in the femur fracture?

D.

Patient admitted for a femur fracture with a history of osteoporosis being treated with Fosamax. Please document "femur fracture due to osteoporosis" in your next progress note to demonstrate a link between the two diagnoses.

Questions 37

A clinical documentation integrity practitioner (CDIP) in an acute care hospital was asked to create new query templates for ICD-10 based on AHIMA and ACDIS

guidelines. What should the multiple-choice query format include?

Options:
A.

Clinically insignificant options

B.

Impact on reimbursement

C.

Clinically unsupported diagnosis

D.

Clinically significant options

Questions 38

An increase in claim denials has prompted a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) manager to engage the CDI physician advisor/champion in an effort to avoid future denials. How does this strategy impact the goal?

Options:
A.

The CDI manager will exclusively provide education.

B.

Physicians will learn documentation integrity practices from peers.

C.

Physicians can manage the documentation integrity process.

D.

Clinicians will not require documentation integrity education.

Questions 39

An organization dealing with staffing shortages has adopted a policy requiring clinical documentation integrity practitioner (CDIP) to stop reviewing any record after a major complication or co-morbidity is found. What is the unintended consequence of

this?

Options:
A.

Increase in case mix index

B.

Reduced risk of clinical denials

C.

Increased number of records reviewed by each CDIP

D.

Decrease in severity of illness and risk of mortality

Questions 40

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

pseudomonas pneumonia, this specificity would

Options:
A.

meet medical necessity

B.

increase relative weight

C.

not increase relative weight

D.

not meet medical necessity

Exam Code: CDIP
Certification Provider: AHIMA
Exam Name: Certified Documentation Integrity Practitioner
Last Update: Jul 11, 2025
Questions: 140

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