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Mid term for Medical

Question	Answer
A person who is in town on vacation goes to a medical provider with symptoms of food poisoning. The type of account to set up for this patient is a(n) __________.	single-entry account
Which of the following is a diplomatic way to ask a patient for payment?	"For today's visit, the total charge is $74. How would you like to pay?"
Which of the following information should be included on a statement? Multiple Choice	the balance from the previous month and an itemized list of charges
Most of a practitioner’s long-standing patients have which type of account?	open-book account
Which of the following states that creditors may not discriminate against an applicant because he or she receives public assistance?	Equal Credit Opportunity Act
A standard personal or business check that the bank verifies and then sets aside the funds to guarantee payment is which type of check?	certified
An endorsement that consists simply of the payee's signature is a	blank endorsement
Another term for a write-it-once system is __________ system.	pegboard
The part of the accounting process that consists of the systematic recording of business transactions is __________.	bookkeeping
Any payment the medical office makes for goods or services is called __________.	a disbursement
Which of the following requires creditors to provide applicants with accurate and complete credit costs and terms?	Truth in Lending Act
An appropriate way to handle a patient relocation and address change is to __________.	ask a third party for the patient's new address
Criteria for hardship cases include patients who __________.	may be poor, underinsured, or elderly and on a limited income
A payment arrangement in which the provider decides a patient will be billed every month for the full amount owed and should make whatever payment is possible each month is a(n) __________.	unilateral agreement
A common billing system that bills each patient only once a month but spreads the work of billing over the month is __________.	cycle billing
When do most smaller practices send out their statements?	at the end of the month
Which of the following is appropriate when placing an initial call to a patient about collections?	Assume that the patient forgot to pay or was temporarily unable to pay.
An initial letter of inquiry is generally sent when an account is __________ days past due.	60
The process of classifying and reviewing past-due accounts from the first date of billing is a(n) __________.	age analysis
A characteristic of a mutual agreement is that __________.	the provider and the patient agree on how much each month's payment will be
Which of the following was not a reason for development and promotion of electronic medical records?	increasing age of the general population
Communication problems that contribute to medical errors in a medical facility include all of the following except __________.	poor telephone etiquette
A patient's personal health record is owned by the __________.	patient
Which stage of "meaningful use" of EHRs for Medicare and Medicaid patients includes documenting the percentage of visits, diagnoses, prescriptions, immunizations, and other pertinent health information electronically?	Stage 1
Which of the following is mandated in Stage 2 of "meaningful use" of EHRs for Medicare or Medicaid patients?	sending and receiving clinical information electronically
Which of the following is an advantage of EHRs?	legibility of records
Generally, once an entry in an electronic health record is saved, a correction is made by __________.	adding an addendum
Which of the following is not likely to be a required field in your EHR software's form to be completed for each new patient?	patient driver's license
Many EHR programs can verify a patient’s insurance coverage and simultaneously capture the patient’s __________.	demographic information
How often should passwords be changed in the EHR system?	as directed by the healthcare facility policies
Common abbreviations are often used in the electronic health records. What does the abbreviation SX stand for?	symptoms
Who enters the data into a personal health record (PHR)?	patient
Which of the following is not likely to be a required field in your EHR software's form to be completed for each new patient?	patient driver's license
When information such as the result of a laboratory test is entered into a patient's EHR, the information is available for viewing __________.	immediately
How many identifiers are required to correctly identify a patient's EHR?	at least 2
Which of the following is a disadvantage of using an electronic scheduler?	If the computer is down, the day's schedule is not accessible.
Medical errors are somewhere between the 3rd and 8th leading cause of death for hospitalized patients. Most of these errors can be traced to all of the following communication problems except __________.	information that is written in blue ink in a paper medical record
In order to find out which patients are not paying their office claims and statements promptly, you could ask the EHR report generator to create a(n) __________ report.	aging
Which type of electronic record is owned and maintained by the patient?	PHR
He is with a patient and is attempting to document the patient's chief complaint in the EHR system but he cannot get the system to accept the information. What should Barry do?	Document the patient's chief complaint on paper and enter it later into the EHR system.

Created by: ashrey0433

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