Ambulatory Care Cert Exam WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory private, non-profit agency that offers voluntary peer-based review of the quality of
Health Care (AAAHC) health care services of ambulatory health organizations
used by CMS for prospective payment in hospital outpatient depts and ambulatory
Ambulatory Patient Classifications (APCs)
surgery centers; based on procedures and adjusted for severity
patient classification system designed to explain amount and type of resource used
Ambulatory Patient Groups (APGs)
in ambulatory care visit
Graphic or pictoral display of the orgs indicators chosen to support the strategic
Balanced Scorecard plan and vision of the org; allows for examination of the relationships among the
separate indicators (care, quality, financial, operational)
Formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA); dividsion within the US Dept
CMS of Health and Human Services that determines the standard rules and reporting
mechanisms for health care services
Formerly home health care classification (HHCC); Saba's Georgetown System for
Clinical Care Classification (CCC)
Patient Problems, Interventions and Outcomes.
a type of insurance contract in which the insurer pays for care received up to a fixed
Commercial Indemnity Plans
amount per encounter or episode of illness
conscious learning process through which one becomes appreciative and sensitive
Cultural awareness
to the cultures of other people
Cultural knowledge process of understanding the key aspects of a groups culture
ability to collect relevant data regarding health histories and perform culturally
Cultural Skills
specific assessments
process that encourages one to engage directly in cross-cultural interactions with
Cultural encounters
people from culturally diverse backgrounds
must possess 5 or more sx of depression:
- insomnia
- fatigue
Major Depression (# of symptoms) - weight loss or gain
- low self-esteem
- sudden bursts of anger
- excessive sleeping
a system for classifying inpatients into groups requiring similar quantities of
Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) resources according to characteristics such as diagnosis, age, procedure,
complications and comorbidities
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