CCM PRACTICE ABI QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

Answer: A) Care coordination The case manager links clients with appropriate providers and resources throughout the continuum of health and human services and care settings, while ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective, client-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. This approach achieves optimum value and desirable outcomes for all—the clients, their support systems, the providers, and the payers. All four are case management functions, but the primary function the case manager is coordination of care. Case management facilitates the achievement of client wellness and autonomy through advocacy, assessment, planning, communication, education, resource management, and service facilitation. The case managers primary function is: A) Care coordination B) Cost containment C) Outcomes management D) Education Answer: B) Pyromania Rationale: The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits workplace discrimination against individuals with, or with a history of, psychiatric disabilities not controlled by medication. It does not, however, protect criminal diagnoses, such as pyromania or kleptomania. Which of the following psychiatric disabilities is not protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act? A) Manic depression B) Pyromania C) Depression D) Anxiety Answer: B) Job accommodation Rationale: Allowing an individual with a wheelchair to raise the height of their desk to accommodate the wheelchair is an example of a job accommodation. A job accommodation is focused on access for an individual. Other examples of job accommodations include voice recognition software and braille keyboards. Raising the height of a desk to provide access by a wheelchair is an example of a: A) Job modification B) Job accommodation C) Job restructuring D) Building Modification