Query Response Rate is defined as which of the following?

• A. Number of Queries Written divided by Number of Query Responses
• B. Number of Query Responses divided by Number of Queries Written
• C. Total Queries divided by Total Number of Responses
• D. Number of Query Responses divided by Number of Denials

Answer: (B)

Query Response Rate measures how often clinicians respond to the queries you write. It is defined as the number of query responses divided by the number of queries written, typically shown as a percentage. This tells you the extent to which the query process yields answers from providers, which supports accurate documentation and coding.

If you had 80 responses to 100 queries, the rate would be 80/100 = 0.80 or 80%.

The other formulations don’t capture the proportion of queries that receive responses: inverting it would give the inverse ratio, using totals across categories can misrepresent the actual response rate, and using denials isn’t related to the response to queries.