CEHRS - Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist Clinical and Financial Reporting Questions and Answers

Question 1

A practice manager asks a CEHRS to generate a report that categorizes outstanding balances by the length of time they have been due (e.g., 0-30 days, 31-60 days, 91+ days).
Which financial report should the CEHRS create?

Accepted Answer

Accounts Receivable Aging Report

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Revenue and Usage Report

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Payer Mix Summary

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Daily Transaction Journal

Question 2

To participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), a healthcare practice must submit data on specific clinical activities. Which type of EHR report is essential for gathering and submitting this data?

Accepted Answer

Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) report

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Patient demographic report

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Insurance eligibility report

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Provider productivity report

Question 3

A CEHRS is assisting the billing manager in analyzing the practice's revenue cycle performance. Which of the following is a key performance indicator (KPI) that measures the average number of days it takes to collect payment after a service has been provided?

Accepted Answer

Days in Accounts Receivable (A/R)

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Net Collection Rate

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Clean Claim Rate

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Denial Rate

Question 4

A CEHRS generates a report from the EHR that lists all patients diagnosed with diabetes who have not had an A1c test in the past six months. This report is a key tool for which of the following healthcare initiatives?

Accepted Answer

Population health management

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Public health syndromic surveillance

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Daily claims submission auditing

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Patient portal enrollment tracking

Question 5

During a regional influenza outbreak, a local public health department requests data from healthcare facilities to monitor the spread of the illness in real-time by tracking symptoms like fever and cough. Which type of automated reporting from the EHR system provides this information?

Accepted Answer

Syndromic surveillance reporting

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Immunization registry reporting

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Cancer registry reporting

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Patient visit summary reporting

Question 6

A clinic's management team wants to identify the most common reasons for claim denials to target staff training and improve the billing process. Which of the following reports would be MOST useful for the CEHRS to generate?

Accepted Answer

A denial analysis report grouped by reason code

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A patient demographic summary

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A provider productivity report

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An insurance eligibility verification log