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MOT 124 Ch 11 and 2
Medical Filing ch 11 & 2
Question | Answer |
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Refers to the agreement/permission of a patient to allow something to occur. | Consent |
A permission given by a competent individual, of legal age, with full knowledge of understanding of the risks, potential benefits, and potential consequences of the permission. | Informed Consent |
For example, patient makes an appointment to have a shot and showed up to the appointment. | Implied Consent |
Cancers, birth defects, infectious diseases, suspected child abuse, educational purposes is an example of what? | Without Consent |
Is a discretion regarding disclosure of information - simply "keeping a secret" | Confidentiality |
Any information, such as patient is a patient, cannot be told to another person. No information can be given over the phone without the patient's permission. | Examples of Confidentiality |
It set sets the rules towards maintaining confidentiality. | HIPPA, Why is it important? |
Only the patient can waive the Physician-patient priviledge, which is accomplished by an instruction in writing from the patient to the facility. | Release of information with consent |
The right of an individual to control access to medical information. | Privacy |
Allergies information | Give an example of information that can be placed outsie the patient's folder. |
The ability to learn the contents of a record by obtaining it or having the contents revealed. | Access |
Continuing patient care, Reimbursement, Litigation | Give three reasons shy individuals would want access to a record. |
Confidentiality presents some interesting issues: different attending physician, different facility, new personnel | Access - Continuing Patient Care |
Prospective Consent, Retrospective Consent | Two types of Access - Reimbursement |
Prospective Consent - patients sign a release that health records may be released to the party who is financially responsible (such as mother, father or insurance company) | Prospective Consent |
The patient may choose to have more control over the release of information about his/her condition, which means that the patient authorized access to the health record after the care has been rendered. | Retrospective Consent |
The process by which one party sues another in a court of law. | Access - Litigation |
How do you place the patient's folder outside door of the examination room? | Patient's folder faces towards the door (away from the view) |
Payment for service rendered | Fee for service |
Payment for services rendered, but at a rate lower that the usual fee for service. | Discounterd free for service |
Payment for a flat rate, based on diagnoses, procedures, or combination of the two. | Prospective payment |
Pay a regular, flat rate to the provider, whether or not services are rendered. For example; Medicaid | Capitation |
Type of cost-sharing in which the insured pays out of pocket a fixed amount of health care service. | Co-payment |