MEDICAL OFFICE CONCEPTS ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
DETAILED SOLUTION GUIDE
●● Select the correct statement regarding various laws:
Answer: Medicare is governed by administrative law.
●● Which of the following are covered entities that provide health care
and send data?
Answer: Health care professionals and health plans;
Health care clearinghouses and hospitals.
●● Violators of HIPAA's security rule may be penalized:
Answer: $100 per violation.
●● The Privacy Act of 1974 guarantees access to records for patients
with:
Answer: Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE.
●● In most states, medical assistants work under the "direct supervision"
of the physician who:
Answer: is to be on the premises;
, is to be available.
●● Which scenario requires an authorization to release medical records?
Answer: Permanent transfer of medical record to a physician who will
be taking over care.
●● Transplanting organs, genetic engineering or manipulation,
maintaining life with life-sustaining equipment, physician-assisted
suicide, cloning, abortion, fetal tissue research, artificial insemination, in
vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and stem cell research are all
issues relating to:
Answer: bioethics
●● Our individual "code of ethics" is:
Answer: based on our surroundings growing up
our character
●● Respondeat superior:
Answer: means "let the master answer" and is also known as vicarious
liability.
●● When terminating a contract between the physician and a patient it is
imported to allow a transition period to:
Answer: locate another physician;
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
DETAILED SOLUTION GUIDE
●● Select the correct statement regarding various laws:
Answer: Medicare is governed by administrative law.
●● Which of the following are covered entities that provide health care
and send data?
Answer: Health care professionals and health plans;
Health care clearinghouses and hospitals.
●● Violators of HIPAA's security rule may be penalized:
Answer: $100 per violation.
●● The Privacy Act of 1974 guarantees access to records for patients
with:
Answer: Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE.
●● In most states, medical assistants work under the "direct supervision"
of the physician who:
Answer: is to be on the premises;
, is to be available.
●● Which scenario requires an authorization to release medical records?
Answer: Permanent transfer of medical record to a physician who will
be taking over care.
●● Transplanting organs, genetic engineering or manipulation,
maintaining life with life-sustaining equipment, physician-assisted
suicide, cloning, abortion, fetal tissue research, artificial insemination, in
vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and stem cell research are all
issues relating to:
Answer: bioethics
●● Our individual "code of ethics" is:
Answer: based on our surroundings growing up
our character
●● Respondeat superior:
Answer: means "let the master answer" and is also known as vicarious
liability.
●● When terminating a contract between the physician and a patient it is
imported to allow a transition period to:
Answer: locate another physician;
