NCCT Medical Assistant Practice Test
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
To ensure that the medical office has the supplies it needs, the medical
assistance should establish a _____? - Answer✔️✔️-1. Reorder Point
2. Inventory control log
3. Order quantity
A _____ is created containing the name, address, and phone number of
both the vendor and the medical practice. It will also have a preassigned
number to track the order, the quantity of items ordered, the price of the
items, and the date purchased. - Answer✔️✔️-Purchase Order
Periodically, the medical assistant should check all equipment in the office
to ensure that courts are not afraid, do not present hazards, and are in good
working order. A _____ will help the medical assistant track this routine
inspection. - Answer✔️✔️-Maintenance Log
When a physician dictates an operative report and asked the medical
assistant to type it up, the physician is asking the medical assistant to
function as a_____? - Answer✔️✔️-Transcriptionist
Under the pier review improvement act of 1982, peer review organizations
are responsible for the review for appropriateness and necessity of putting
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a patient into the hospital by a process known as _____ review -
Answer✔️✔️-Admissions
Which one of the following is a decision based upon bioethics.
a. Reporting physical, emotional, or mental abuse.
b. Treating a 16 year old girl who is pregnant without parental consent.
c. The use of fetal tissue transplantation for research.
d. Reporting to the authorities a suicidal patient. - Answer✔️✔️-The use of
fetal tissue transplantation for research.
A physician must have the patient's permission in writing to reveal any
confidential information except for which of the following? gunshot
wound, anorexia, drug addiction, pregnancy - Answer✔️✔️-Gunshot
Wound
what is the federal regulation that requires healthcare professionals to
protect the privacy and confidentiality of patients health information? -
Answer✔️✔️-HIPPA
a business letter, written in full block style will have all lines_____? -
Answer✔️✔️-At the left hand margin.
when writing a business letter, the salutation of a letter should be followed
by which punctuation mark? - Answer✔️✔️-Colon :
when handling a patient complaint, which one of the following would be
most appropriate?
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