2026 NHA CMAA CORRECT EXAMS SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Privacy Rule - ✔✔A HIPAA rule that establishes protections for the privacy of
individual's health information.
✔✔Individually Identifiable Health Information - ✔✔Documents or bits of information that
identify the person or provide enough information so that the person could be identified.
✔✔Bookkeeping - ✔✔Part of the office's accounting functions, to include recording,
classifying, and summarizing financial transactions.
✔✔Copayment - ✔✔A fixed fee for a service or medication, usually collected at the time
of service or purchase.
✔✔Deductible - ✔✔The amount a patient must pay before insurance pays anything.
✔✔Coinsurance - ✔✔A form of cost sharing the kicks in after the deductible has been
met.
✔✔Statement - ✔✔A request for payment.
✔✔Explanation of Benefits (EOB) - ✔✔A record of a patient's fees.
, ✔✔Accounts Receivable Ledger - ✔✔Document that provides detailed information
about charges, payments, and remaining amounts owed to a provider.
✔✔Fee-for-service - ✔✔Model in which providers set the fees for procedures and
services.
✔✔Allowable Amount - ✔✔The limit that most insurance plans put on the amount that
will be allowed for reimbursement for a service or procedure.
✔✔Resource-based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) - ✔✔System that provides national
uniform payments after adjustments across all practices throughout the country.
✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔Voluntary supplemental medical insurance to help pay for
physicians' and other medical professionals' services, medical services, and medical-
surgical supplies not covered by Medicare Part A.
✔✔Petty Cash Fund - ✔✔A small amount of cash available for expenses such as
postage, parking fees, small contributions, emergency supplies, and miscellaneous
small items.
✔✔Disbursement - ✔✔The record of the funds distributed to specific expense accounts.
✔✔Daily Journal - ✔✔A chronological record of bills received, bills paid, and payments
and reimbursements received.
✔✔Day Sheet - ✔✔A daily record of financial transactions and services rendered.
✔✔End-of-day Summary - ✔✔Document consisting of proof of posting sections, month-
to-date accounts receivable proof, and year-to-date accounts receivable proof.
✔✔Single-entry System - ✔✔A method of bookkeeping that relies on a one-sided
accounting entry to maintain financial information.
✔✔General Journal - ✔✔Document where transactions are entered.
✔✔Double-entry bookkeeping - ✔✔A system in which every entry to an account
requires an opposite entry to a different account.
✔✔Subsidiary Journals - ✔✔A document where transactions are summarized and later
recorded in a general ledger.
✔✔Invoice - ✔✔A document that describes items purchased or services rendered and
shows the amount due.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Privacy Rule - ✔✔A HIPAA rule that establishes protections for the privacy of
individual's health information.
✔✔Individually Identifiable Health Information - ✔✔Documents or bits of information that
identify the person or provide enough information so that the person could be identified.
✔✔Bookkeeping - ✔✔Part of the office's accounting functions, to include recording,
classifying, and summarizing financial transactions.
✔✔Copayment - ✔✔A fixed fee for a service or medication, usually collected at the time
of service or purchase.
✔✔Deductible - ✔✔The amount a patient must pay before insurance pays anything.
✔✔Coinsurance - ✔✔A form of cost sharing the kicks in after the deductible has been
met.
✔✔Statement - ✔✔A request for payment.
✔✔Explanation of Benefits (EOB) - ✔✔A record of a patient's fees.
, ✔✔Accounts Receivable Ledger - ✔✔Document that provides detailed information
about charges, payments, and remaining amounts owed to a provider.
✔✔Fee-for-service - ✔✔Model in which providers set the fees for procedures and
services.
✔✔Allowable Amount - ✔✔The limit that most insurance plans put on the amount that
will be allowed for reimbursement for a service or procedure.
✔✔Resource-based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) - ✔✔System that provides national
uniform payments after adjustments across all practices throughout the country.
✔✔Medicare Part B - ✔✔Voluntary supplemental medical insurance to help pay for
physicians' and other medical professionals' services, medical services, and medical-
surgical supplies not covered by Medicare Part A.
✔✔Petty Cash Fund - ✔✔A small amount of cash available for expenses such as
postage, parking fees, small contributions, emergency supplies, and miscellaneous
small items.
✔✔Disbursement - ✔✔The record of the funds distributed to specific expense accounts.
✔✔Daily Journal - ✔✔A chronological record of bills received, bills paid, and payments
and reimbursements received.
✔✔Day Sheet - ✔✔A daily record of financial transactions and services rendered.
✔✔End-of-day Summary - ✔✔Document consisting of proof of posting sections, month-
to-date accounts receivable proof, and year-to-date accounts receivable proof.
✔✔Single-entry System - ✔✔A method of bookkeeping that relies on a one-sided
accounting entry to maintain financial information.
✔✔General Journal - ✔✔Document where transactions are entered.
✔✔Double-entry bookkeeping - ✔✔A system in which every entry to an account
requires an opposite entry to a different account.
✔✔Subsidiary Journals - ✔✔A document where transactions are summarized and later
recorded in a general ledger.
✔✔Invoice - ✔✔A document that describes items purchased or services rendered and
shows the amount due.
