This RHIA cheat sheet distills the AHIMA Registered Health Information Administrator exam into a printable rundown of the facts examiners test most across all five content domains. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free RHIA toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
RHIA exam at a glance
- Questions: 150 total items (130 scored + 20 unscored pretest)
- Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Passing score: Scaled score of 300 (scale 100-400); pass/fail
- Cost: About $229 for AHIMA members, $299 non-members (verify at AHIMA.org)
What’s on the RHIA cheat sheet
- Compliance with Uses & Disclosures of PHI (26%) — HIPAA Privacy and Security, TPO, minimum necessary, release of information, retention, and breach response — the largest domain.
- Data Analytics & Informatics (24%) — healthcare statistics, data visualization, the master patient index, EHR systems, and health information exchange.
- Information Governance (19%) — data integrity and quality, the data dictionary, standardization, and the legal health record vs. designated record set.
- Revenue Management (16%) — the revenue cycle, claims, clinical documentation improvement, coding validation, value-based care, and fraud.
- Management & Leadership (15%) — strategy, human resources, process improvement, budgeting, and accreditation.
How to use it in your final week
- Lead every review pass with the two biggest domains — Compliance with Uses and Disclosures of PHI (26%) and Data Analytics and Informatics (24%) together are half the exam.
- Drill the HIPAA reflexes until they're automatic: TPO needs no authorization, minimum necessary applies, and a breach of unsecured PHI is presumed until the four-factor risk assessment says otherwise.
- Memorize the MPI errors by danger — an overlay (one patient's data under another's identifier) is the patient-safety emergency, ahead of duplicates and overlaps.
- Read the sheet the morning of the test for a final pass on the memory hooks — scaled 300 to pass, 60-day breach notification, 500+ triggers HHS and media, and the ALOS and incidence-vs-prevalence formulas.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your RHIA practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
RHIA cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the RHIA cheat sheet downloads as a PDF with no account and no sign-up. It sits alongside Career Employer's free RHIA practice test, study guide, and flashcards, so your whole Registered Health Information Administrator toolkit costs nothing.
It condenses the highest-yield AHIMA facts into a fast reference: the five content domains and their weights, the HIPAA privacy, security, and breach rules, MPI error types, core healthcare statistics, and revenue-cycle metrics — the reasoning examiners return to most across the Registered Health Information Administrator exam.
It follows AHIMA's current RHIA exam content outline and the five domain weights effective March 1, 2021, and we review it against AHIMA's published outline. Fees and policies change, so confirm the current numbers on AHIMA.org before you apply.
No — it is a review and last-week cram layer, not a replacement for full study across five very different domains. You need a scaled score of 300 on the 100-400 scale, so use the sheet to lock in facts and the practice test to build readiness before you book.
Click the download button or the preview card at the top of this page and the PDF opens instantly. Bookmark the page so it's one tap away during your final week before the Pearson VUE appointment.
References
- 1.American Health Information Management Association. “Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).” AHIMA.org, 2026. ↑
- 2.AHIMA Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management. “Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) Exam Content Outline.” AHIMA.org, 2026. ↑
- 3.U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. “HIPAA for Professionals: The Privacy Rule.” HHS.gov, 2026. ↑
- 4.U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. “HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.” HHS.gov, 2026. ↑
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