CCDSの各主題研究の分析を通じて急流、探索する価値のある隠れたルールがたくさんあることがわかりました。これは非常に必要であると同時に、CCDSトレーニング資料には専門家の素晴らしい夢のチームがあり、そのため、毎年提案の傾向を厳密に管理できます。年次試験問題では、CCDS調査問題に対応する規則があり、今年のテストのホットスポットと提案の方向を正確に予測できます。これにより、ユーザーは自信を持ってCCDSテストの準備をすることができます。
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and medical terminology | 19.17% | - Diseases and disorders of the kidney and urinary tract - Standard medical abbreviations - Diseases and disorders of the musculoskeletal system - Pharmaceuticals and disease processes - Diseases and disorders of the circulatory system - Myeloproliferative diseases and disorders and poorly differentiated neoplasms - Mental diseases and disorders - Clinical indicators and query opportunities by Major Diagnostic Category - Infectious and parasitic diseases - Diseases and disorders of the respiratory system - Diseases and disorders of the digestive system - Medications as clinical indicators - Alcohol/drug use and alcohol/drug-induced organic brain disorders - Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases and disorders - Diseases and disorders of the blood and blood-forming organs and immunological disorders - HIV infections - Diseases and disorders of the hepatobiliary system - Diseases and disorders of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and breast - Diseases and disorders of the nervous system - Injuries, poisonings, and toxic effects of drugs - Diagnostic tests as clinical indicators |
| Topic 2: Impact of reportable diagnoses on quality of care | 8.33% | - Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - Healthcare-associated infections and complication codes - Documentation and code assignment impact on mortality index - Patient Safety Indicators - Mortality reviews and observed/expected ratios - Quality data from record abstraction and claims data - Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program - Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program - CDI impact on Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - 30-day mortality measures - Coded data elements affecting Patient Safety Indicators |
| Topic 3: Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting | 14.17% | - Principal diagnosis assignment - AHA Coding Clinic - Coding guidelines for principal diagnosis selection - Discharge dispositions and transfers - Present on admission indicators - Secondary diagnosis assignment - Hospital-acquired conditions - Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting updates - Working DRG assignment for multiple diagnoses |
| Topic 4: Medical record documentation | 19.17% | - ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice - Documentation requiring clarification - Situations in which queries are not appropriate - When a physician query is warranted - Compliant and noncompliant queries - Health record elements used for diagnosis and procedure code assignment - Addressing diagnoses without clinical support - Provider role and diagnosis code assignment - Physician query formats - Clinical indicators - Types of physician queries - Translating clinical indicators into compliant queries |
| Topic 5: Healthcare facility CDI program analysis | 8.33% | - Publicly reported data - CDI specialist productivity metrics - Tracking and trending physician, department, and hospital performance - Patient Safety Indicators - Hospital-specific financial data - Basic computer and software application skills - Severity of illness and risk of mortality - Case mix index (CMI) - CC/MCC capture - CDI program forecasting - High-frequency DRGs - Provider response rates - Physician performance measurement - PEPPER data - Hospital Value-Based Purchasing measures |
| Topic 6: Healthcare regulations, reimbursement, and documentation requirements related to the IPPS | 12.5% | - Medical staff and clinical staff documentation responsibilities - Complication/comorbidity (CC) - Coding and billing practices vulnerable to denial - IPPS and its updates and revisions - Medicare contractors and their impact on CDI - Major complication/comorbidity (MCC) - Case mix index (CMI) - Principal diagnosis and medical necessity - Documentation impact on IPPS reimbursement - Inpatient admission criteria and CMS Two-Midnight Rule - Documentation and medical necessity of setting - Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) |
| Topic 7: Communication skills | 9.17% | - Roles and responsibilities of CDI specialists - Physician education forms and tools - Educational presentations for healthcare departments and administration - Roles and responsibilities of coders working with CDI departments - Verbal versus written physician communication - Reconciling CDI working DRGs with final coded DRGs - Effective and non-confrontational physician communication |
| Topic 8: Professionalism, ethics, and compliance | 9.17% | - Potential DRG creep - CDI department goals beyond reimbursement - Medical record confidentiality - DRG compliance initiatives - Compliance risks indicated by PEPPER - Leading queries |
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質問 # 47
A patient accidentally takes twice the prescribed dose of warfarin and develops gastrointestinal bleeding.
Which coding concept applies?
正解：B
解説：
Taking more medication than prescribed constitutes poisoning under ICD-10-CM drug-event rules. The drug may have been correctly prescribed, but the patient took an incorrect amount.
For poisoning, the applicable poisoning code is generally sequenced first, followed by codes identifying manifestations such as gastrointestinal bleeding.
This differs from an adverse effect, in which a drug is correctly prescribed and properly administered but causes an undesirable reaction. In adverse-effect scenarios, the nature of the adverse effect is coded first, followed by the drug code with the appropriate adverse-effect character.
Underdosing applies when the patient takes less of a medication than prescribed, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It does not describe excessive dosing.
For CDI specialists, determining whether an event represents poisoning, adverse effect, or underdosing requires careful review of how the medication was prescribed and actually taken. Phrases such as "warfarin- related bleeding" may not always provide enough information to determine the correct classification.
A clarification query may therefore be appropriate when dose, intent, or medication-use circumstances are unclear.
CCDS Reference Topics: Poisoning; adverse effects; underdosing; medication events; sequencing.
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質問 # 48
A CDI director wants to evaluate whether physicians are consistently addressing clarification requests. Which metric most directly measures this aspect of physician engagement?
正解：C
解説：
The provider query response rate most directly measures whether physicians are responding to CDI clarification requests. It evaluates participation in the query process regardless of whether the provider agrees with the diagnosis suggested by the clinical circumstances.
This distinction is important. A high agreement rate is not necessarily the goal of a compliant CDI program.
Providers should be free to disagree, document an alternative condition, state that a diagnosis was ruled out, or indicate that the issue cannot be determined. A very high response rate combined with clinically independent responses represents stronger engagement than an artificial focus on agreement.
Case mix index measures the average relative resource intensity of the hospital's MS-DRGs and is influenced by numerous clinical, coding, surgical, and case-mix factors. CC capture reflects diagnosis severity patterns but does not directly demonstrate physician responsiveness. CDI review rate is primarily a departmental workflow/productivity measure.
The official CCDS content outline specifically lists provider response rates, CMI, CDI productivity metrics, physician-performance measurement, and longitudinal trending among CDI program-analysis competencies.
A mature program should analyze response rate by service line, provider, query type, response time, and escalation frequency.
CCDS Reference Topics: Provider response rate; physician engagement; CDI analytics; query metrics; program performance.
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質問 # 49
A CDI program plans to develop a policy for addressing diagnoses that require clinical validation. According to the Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice, which of the following should be addressed in the policy?
正解：B
解説：
A compliant clinical-validation process should include a defined escalation process. The AHIMA/ACDIS query guidance specifically recommends organizational query policies that address escalation when a query remains unanswered or when documentation and clinical-validation concerns cannot be resolved through the ordinary workflow. Escalation may involve CDI or coding leadership, a physician advisor, the chief medical officer, or other designated personnel according to organizational policy.
Option A is inappropriate because simply coding every documented diagnosis without addressing significant clinical-support concerns undermines data integrity and increases denial and compliance risk. Option B is also too absolute. Coding professionals cannot independently substitute their clinical judgment for that of the responsible provider; unclear or potentially unsupported diagnoses should be addressed through an established clarification and validation process. Option D is incorrect because queries may appropriately occur concurrently or retrospectively depending on the circumstances and organizational workflow.
The goal of clinical validation is not to force removal or confirmation of a diagnosis. It is to ensure that the provider has an opportunity to clarify whether the diagnosis accurately represents the patient's clinical condition and to document supporting reasoning where appropriate.
CCDS Reference Topics: Professionalism, ethics, and compliance; clinical validation; compliant query policies; escalation procedures.
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質問 # 50
A CDI specialist sends a compliant query. The physician answers "other-viral syndrome" and supports the diagnosis in the progress note. The queried diagnosis would have been an MCC. What should the CDI specialist do?
正解：D
解説：
The CDI specialist should accept the physician's clinically supported response. Querying is intended to clarify documentation, not to obtain a predetermined diagnosis or reimbursement result.
A compliant query should preserve the provider's independent clinical judgment. The physician may select one of the offered choices, document another diagnosis, rule out the suspected condition, or state that the diagnosis cannot be determined.
The fact that a different answer would qualify as an MCC is irrelevant to whether the provider's response should be respected.
Repeatedly issuing the same query because the initial response does not increase reimbursement risks creating a coercive or leading process and undermines documentation integrity.
A follow-up query could be justified if materially new clinical information appears or if the response itself remains internally contradictory or incomplete. But disagreement with the financial consequence is not sufficient.
The August 2026 ACDIS/AHIMA guidelines supersede all previous versions and are the current foundational resource for compliant query processes across healthcare settings.
CCDS Reference Topics: Provider autonomy; query response; MCC neutrality; ethical CDI practice; compliant querying.
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質問 # 51
A CDI specialist reviews the MS-DRG mismatch report and notes a difference in a case. The coder noted that a current Coding Clinic affects the final coding of the record, which changed the MS-DRG assignment. To BEST understand this discrepancy, the specialist should FIRST:
正解：A
解説：
The CDI specialist should first review the final coded record together with the Coding Clinic guidance identified by the coder. This provides an objective basis for understanding why the final MS-DRG differs from the CDI working DRG.
A mismatch does not automatically indicate that either CDI or coding made an error. Working DRGs are provisional and may change after complete review of discharge documentation, operative reports, pathology, final diagnostic information, coding conventions, official guidelines, or authoritative Coding Clinic advice.
Reviewing the applicable guidance before contacting the coder promotes an informed and efficient reconciliation process. Once the specialist understands the coding rule, discussion with the coder may still be useful if ambiguity remains. Immediately escalating to the coding manager is unnecessary unless the issue cannot be resolved through normal collaboration. Forwarding the record without investigating the mismatch would defeat the purpose of a reconciliation process and could allow recurring education opportunities to remain unidentified.
Mismatch analysis is a valuable CDI quality metric because it can identify documentation gaps, coding- knowledge issues, changes in authoritative guidance, and opportunities to improve CDI/coding alignment.
CCDS Reference Topics: MS-DRG reconciliation; CDI/coder collaboration; Coding Clinic application; CDI program analysis.
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質問 # 52
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