Administration AMCA Study Guide
Implied consent - -A patient slightly pulls up their sleeve to get a blood
draw.
-CHAMPVA - -Veterans with service related disabilities are eligible for care
under this.
-Group Health Insurance - -health insurance consisting of contracts written
between a group, (employer, union, etc.) and the health care provider
-Dependent - -Someone who relies on someone else for income and care.
Usually a child or spouse.
-The person who owns the Insurance policy is called: - -Policy holder,
Subscriber, or Member
-Clean claim - -Error free claim form that has been processed and paid
-Fee Schedule - -A list of charges or established allowances for specific
medical services and procedures
-An elderly person collaspses in the waiting area, and you are the only
Medical Assistant there. What is your FIRST step? - -Alert the Provider
-Allowed amount - -The insurance carrier is allowed to use any method to
determine the amount for services.
-Doctorine of the Respondent Superior - -The Provider is responsible for any
errors made by the staff.
-Eligiblity to be a dependent on an insurance plan: - -Person must be
unmarried
-cluster scheduling - -A method that brings several patients in at the same
time, such as on the hour, to be seen by the provider; also known as wave
scheduling.
-Wave scheduling - -A certain # of patients are scheduled to arrive at the
same time and are seen in which the order they arrive.
-New Patient - -patient that has never seen a particular physician, or has
not seen them within THREE years
, -established patient - -a patient who has been seen by a provider in the
practice in the same specialty within three years
-Fixed appointment scheduling - -One patient is scheduled for a specific
appointment time.
-Single booking - -a method of scheduling in which only one patient is
assigned to one block of time in a visit schedule
-Double booking scheduling - -Two patients are given the same
appointment time
-SOAP - -subjective, objective, assessment, plan
-POMR (problem oriented medical record) - -Data is arranged according to
medical issue/problem
-At the minimum how many fire exits need to be identified as EXITS - -2
-CDC - -Center for Disease Control
-How has the advance of technology affected the medical profession? - -
They have increased our training
-What information is needed on a CMS-1500 claim form? - -Diagnostic codes
-Where do we keep "Crash Carts"? - -At the Nurse's Station
-The BEST way to learn job responsibilites? - -Ask for a clear job description
and directions for daily activities.
-Medicare Part B - -An optional and supplemental portion of Medicare that
provides benefits for physician services, for people on social security.
-loyalty - -Faithful adherence to one's promise, oath, word of honor, etc.
-Flexibility - -When Medical Assistants are able to adapt to situations
-afferent nerve - -carries messages toward the brain and spinal cord
-Basophilla - -An overabundance of a particular white blood cell
-petty cash fund - -small amount of cash kept on hand to pay for minor
purchases. (office supplies)
-The root word "megal" - -enlarged
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