Medical Assisting Administrative & Clinical Competencies (MindTap Course List) 9th Edition by Michelle Blesi – Solution and Answer Guide

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Solution and Answer Guide for
Medical Assisting Administrative & Clinical Competencies
(MindTap Course List) 9th Edition by Michelle Blesi
Blesi, Medical Assisting, 2025; 9780357502815; Chapter 01: The Medical Assistant,
Health Care Team, and Medical Environment

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Content Type
Check Your Understanding (from End of Chapter questions)
1. To be successful as an MA, you must learn a specific:
a. knowledge base.
b. set of skills.
c. set of behaviors.
d. all of these

ANS: d

Analysis:
a. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of
behaviors to be successful.
b. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of
behaviors to be successful.
c. Incorrect. As an MA, you must learn a knowledge base, a set of skills, and a set of
behaviors to be successful.
d. Correct. As an MA, you must learn all of these – a knowledge base, a set of skills, and aset
of behaviors - to be successful.

2. All of the following are clinical skills EXCEPT:
a. Filing patient records
b. Phlebotomy
c. Administering medications
d. Wrapping instruments

ANS: a
Analysis:
a. Correct. The filing of patient records is an administrative skill.
b. Incorrect. Phlebotomy is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an administrative

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skill.
c. Incorrect. Administering medications is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an
administrative skill.




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Medical Assisting Administrative & Clinical Competencies (MindTap Course List) 9th Edition by Michelle Blesi: Blesi, Medical Assisting,
2022; 9780357502815; Chapter 01: The Medical Assistant, Health Care Team, and Medical Environment


d. Incorrect. Wrapping instruments is a clinical skill. The filing of patient records is an
administrative skill.

3. A system where patients pay an added fee in exchange for more personalized care and better
access to their providers for medical services is referred to as which type of service?
a. PCMH
b. ACO
c. boutique
d. managed care
ANS: c

Analysis:
a. Incorrect. PCMH is a patient-centered medical home. This is a model of care where
doctors, hospitals, and healthcare providers work to provide high-quality care to their
Medicare patients.
b. Incorrect, ACO is an accountable care organization. This is a model of care where
doctors, hospitals, and healthcare providers work to provide high-quality care to their
Medicare patients.
c. Correct. A boutique system is where patients pay an added fee in exchange for more
personalized care and better access to their providers for medical services.
d. Incorrect. Managed care refers to care plans where the providers follow rules to keep
care costs down.

4. Employment opportunities for medical assistants are expected to do which of the following
through 2028?
a. grow
b. decline
c. stay consistent
d. be

eliminatedANS: a

Analysis:
a. Correct. Employment opportunities for medical assistants are expected to grow through
2028.
b. Incorrect. Employment opportunities for medical assistants are expected to grow through
2028.
c. Incorrect. Employment opportunities for medical assistants are expected to grow through
2028.
d. Incorrect. Employment opportunities for medical assistants are expected to grow through
2028.

5. Which of the following organizations provides the RMA credential?
a. AAMA
b. AMT
c. AAPC
d. NHA

ANS: b

Analysis:


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