AMCA Certification Exam 2022 Questions and Answers

Empathy - ANSWER Having an understanding and compassion for what the patient may be experiencing Established Patient - ANSWER Has been seen by the physician within 3 years New Patient - ANSWER Hasn't been to the ph ...

Empathy - ANSWER Having an understanding and compassion for what the patient may be experiencing Established Patient - ANSWER Has been seen by the physician within 3 years New Patient - ANSWER Hasn't been to the physician in 3 years CMS - ANSWER Center for Medicare and Medicaid services HIPAA Title I - ANSWER Healthcare Access, Portability and Renewability HIPAA Title II - ANSWER Preventing Health Care Fraud and Abuse HIPAA Title III - ANSWER Tax Related Health Provisions HIPAA Title IV - ANSWER Application and Enforcement of Group Health Plan Requirements HIPAA Title V - ANSWER Revenue Offsets HIPAA - ANSWER Health Insurance and Accountability Act Expressed Consent - ANSWER A patient acknowledges that they have received proper direction regarding the nature of their medical treatment verbally or by signing a comment form Implied Consent - ANSWER A patient uses body language top indicate that they agree to receive a form of medical care Respondeat Superior - ANSWER "let the master answer"; physician is responsible for medical staff mistakes Coordination of Benefits - ANSWER C.O.B; Indicates how a policy well pay when more than one insurance plan is in effect HITECH - ANSWER Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; Promotes the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (EHR) ONCHIT - ANSWER Office of National Coordination for Health Technology Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Health Information and data elements Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Results management Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Order management Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Decision support Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Electronic communications and connectivity Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Patient support Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Administrative processes Core Function of EHR - ANSWER Reporting and population management Electronic Medical Records (EMR) - ANSWER Computerized records of one physicians encounter with a patient over time (intranet) Electronic Health Records (EHR) - ANSWER Reflects the data from ALL sources that have treated the individual (interoperable to other facilities) Acute Care - ANSWER Most often refers to a hospital, treats patients with urgent problems that cannot be handled Personal Health Records (PHR) - ANSWER Maintained and owned by the patient Ambulatory Care - ANSWER Refers to treatment without admission to hospital Clinical Templates - ANSWER Allows doctors to document patient encounters into an EHR on a structured form RADT - ANSWER Registration, admissions, discharge, transfer Unique Patient Identifier (UPI) - ANSWER Links all clinical observations, tests, procedures, villains, evaluations, and diagnoses to the patient Clinical Vocabularies - ANSWER Set a common definitions for medical terms that ease communication by decreasing uncertainty SNOMED-CT - ANSWER Clinical vocabulary designed to encompass all trends used in medicine LOINC - ANSWER Trends and codes used for electronic exchange of lab results and clinical observations UMLS - ANSWER Thesaurus database of medical terms Fixed Appointment Scheduling - ANSWER One patient is scheduled for a specific appointment time Cluster Scheduling - ANSWER Scheduling a group of patients cooking in for the fake tour of service should be scheduled around the same block of time Double Booking - ANSWER Two patients are scheduled to see the same physician at once Wave Scheduling Method - ANSWER Patients are scheduled for the first half of each hour, and each patient is seen in the order they arrive Narrative Style Charting - ANSWER Physicians dictate notes about patients care, then gave rise notes transcribed and placed in the patients chart SOAP - ANSWER Subjective, objective, assessment, plan Subjective - ANSWER Any information that the patient provides including chief complaint, or comments made during an examination Objective - ANSWER Information based on observations made by the physician or medical assistant (lab results, vital signs) Assessment - ANSWER A brief summary of the patients symptoms, and may often include a diagnosis as well as a list of other possible diagnoses Plan - ANSWER Consists of any information regarding the prescribed plan of action for a patient (prescriptions, instructions, referrals) Problem Oriented Medical Record (POMR) - ANSWER Charting that tracks patients problems during the time they are receiving medical care Progress Notes - ANSWER Daily chart notes which are used to record any information that Irish to the various stages of a patients condition Flow Chart - ANSWER A visual aid used to keep track of information over a period of time Alphabetic Filing System - ANSWER Information is filed according to the patients last name Numeric Filing System - ANSWER Information regarding each patient is stored used a number, instead of the last name A Medical Record Contains... - ANSWER Personal information, financial information, medical information and social information Personal/Financial Information - ANSWER Includes insurance data, marital status, next of kin, and other items collected for personal identification Medical Information - ANSWER Includes the chief complaint, family/patient medical history, results of exams, physical exam form, lab reports, etc. Social Information - ANSWER Includes items such as race, ethnicity, hobbies, lifestyle choices Self-Insure - ANSWER A method in which the employer pays directly for the employees medical bills Medicare - ANSWER Federal program for patients that are either over the age of 65, disabled, or considered end-stage renal disease patients Medicaid - ANSWER Federal program, state administered, for individuals/families that have very low income TRICARE - ANSWER A benefit program for members of the armed forces, as well as retired service personnel and they're families CHAMPVA - ANSWER A benefit program for veterans with service-related disabilities Workers' Compensation - ANSWER Coverage through employers for partners who suffer from job-related injuries Person Who Owns Insurance Policy - ANSWER Member, subscriber, insured, policyholder Dependents - ANSWER Family members who are chores tuner the members insurance policy Premium - ANSWER Monthly payment to the insurance company to receive coverage (usually deducted from paycheck) Allowed Amount - ANSWER The amount charged for service determined by the insurance company Provider - ANSWER Physician, specialist, or any person that provides medical care Participating Provider (Preferred) - ANSWER Physicians who agree to accept the allowed amount from the insurance company as a payment in full Copayment - ANSWER A fixed amount a patient may be required to pay at the time of their appointment Coinsurance - ANSWER A set percentage of charges that the patient pays in surfing to the guidelines set forth by their policy (80/20) Deductible - ANSWER A set amount the patient may be required to pay the provider before they can receive services Beneficiary - ANSWER A patient covered by a federal program, such as Medicare or Medicaid Word Root - ANSWER Foundation of a med term Suffix - ANSWER Med term ending Prefix - ANSWER Med term beginning Combing Vowel - ANSWER Links the root to the suffix or another root Combing Form - ANSWER Word root plus the appropriate combining vowel Arthr/o - ANSWER Joint Bi/o - ANSWER Life Cardi/o - ANSWER Heart Carcin/o - ANSWER Cancerous, cancer Cephal/o - ANSWER Head Cerebr/o - ANSWER Cerebrum Cyt/o - ANSWER Cell Dent/l - ANSWER Teeth Derm/o - ANSWER Skin Electr/o - ANSWER Electrical activity Enter/o - ANSWER Intestines Fet/o - ANSWER Fetus Gastr/o - ANSWER Stomach Rhin/o - ANSWER Nose Sarc/o - ANSWER Flesh Thromb/o - ANSWER Clotting Ur/o - ANSWER Urinary tract -al - ANSWER Pertaining to -algia - ANSWER Pain -dynia - ANSWER Pain -ectomy - ANSWER Excision, removal -emia - ANSWER Blood condition -genic - ANSWER Produced by, pertaining to producing -globin - ANSWER Protein -itis - ANSWER Inflammation -oma - ANSWER Tumor, mass swelling -osis - ANSWER Condition, usually abnormal -pathy - ANSWER Disease condition -sis - ANSWER State of; condition Ante- - ANSWER Before, in front of Anti- - ANSWER Against Brady- - ANSWER Slow Dia- - ANSWER Through, complete End, Endo- - ANSWER Within Epi- - ANSWER Above, upon