| Question |
Answer |
| 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 |
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