CCM exam ethical, legal, and practice
standards questions and answers5
ACA - ANSWERS -- End to pre-existing condition discrimination
- End to arbitrary withdrawals of insurance coverage
- Keeps young adults covered on parents employer policies until they are 26
- Free preventative care, benefits: PP, diabetes and cholesterol testing/some cancer
screenings/counseling on smoking, cessation, weight loss, healthy eating, treating depression,
reducing alcohol use/well baby and well-child visits from birth to 21/routine
vaccination/counseling screening and vaccines to ensure healthy pregnancies/flu and
pneumonia shots
Five basic ethical principles - ANSWERS -Beneficence, non-maleficience, autonomy, justice,
fidelity
Beneficence - ANSWERS -doing good - take positive action to assist others
Non-maleficence - ANSWERS -duty to do no harm
autonomy - ANSWERS -Respect, individuals right to make their own decisions and to self
determine a course of action
Justice - ANSWERS -Treat others fairly and equally, and also extends to equitable access to
resources and treatment
Fidelity - ANSWERS -Follow through keeping commitments and promises
, Advocacy - ANSWERS -Focusing on the principal that the needs of the client as the client sees
them are primary. - CM collaborates with the autonomous client with a goal of fostering and
encouraging the client's independence and self-determination.
- Involves informing the client of his options and supporting his decisions
Experimental treatments - ANSWERS -Any patient receiving experimental treatment must give
informed consent after all aspects of care, including the likelihood of harm and severity of the
harm are disclosed.
- There also must be an equitable system to select patients to participate in experimental
treatment.
Advanced Directive (AD) - ANSWERS -Legal document where a patient gives written instructions
about health care decisions in the future.
2 forms
- those that dictate what kind of medical treatment to be given or withheld
- those that appoint agent/proxy to make HC decisions
living will - ANSWERS -A document that indicates what medical intervention an individual wants
if they become incapable of expressing those wishes.
Healthcare power of attorney/medical durable power of attorney - ANSWERS -Designates who
is to make HC decisions on behalf of the person if they are unable to make decisions for
themselves
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) - ANSWERS -A federal law that mandates that every
individual has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to refuse
treatment and the right-to-die
- Medicare/Medicaid - ask patient if they have an advanced directive, inform patient of rights,
can't discriminate against persons who have executed an advanced directive, ensure legally
valid advanced directives are implemented to the extent permitted by state law, provide
standards questions and answers5
ACA - ANSWERS -- End to pre-existing condition discrimination
- End to arbitrary withdrawals of insurance coverage
- Keeps young adults covered on parents employer policies until they are 26
- Free preventative care, benefits: PP, diabetes and cholesterol testing/some cancer
screenings/counseling on smoking, cessation, weight loss, healthy eating, treating depression,
reducing alcohol use/well baby and well-child visits from birth to 21/routine
vaccination/counseling screening and vaccines to ensure healthy pregnancies/flu and
pneumonia shots
Five basic ethical principles - ANSWERS -Beneficence, non-maleficience, autonomy, justice,
fidelity
Beneficence - ANSWERS -doing good - take positive action to assist others
Non-maleficence - ANSWERS -duty to do no harm
autonomy - ANSWERS -Respect, individuals right to make their own decisions and to self
determine a course of action
Justice - ANSWERS -Treat others fairly and equally, and also extends to equitable access to
resources and treatment
Fidelity - ANSWERS -Follow through keeping commitments and promises
, Advocacy - ANSWERS -Focusing on the principal that the needs of the client as the client sees
them are primary. - CM collaborates with the autonomous client with a goal of fostering and
encouraging the client's independence and self-determination.
- Involves informing the client of his options and supporting his decisions
Experimental treatments - ANSWERS -Any patient receiving experimental treatment must give
informed consent after all aspects of care, including the likelihood of harm and severity of the
harm are disclosed.
- There also must be an equitable system to select patients to participate in experimental
treatment.
Advanced Directive (AD) - ANSWERS -Legal document where a patient gives written instructions
about health care decisions in the future.
2 forms
- those that dictate what kind of medical treatment to be given or withheld
- those that appoint agent/proxy to make HC decisions
living will - ANSWERS -A document that indicates what medical intervention an individual wants
if they become incapable of expressing those wishes.
Healthcare power of attorney/medical durable power of attorney - ANSWERS -Designates who
is to make HC decisions on behalf of the person if they are unable to make decisions for
themselves
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) - ANSWERS -A federal law that mandates that every
individual has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to refuse
treatment and the right-to-die
- Medicare/Medicaid - ask patient if they have an advanced directive, inform patient of rights,
can't discriminate against persons who have executed an advanced directive, ensure legally
valid advanced directives are implemented to the extent permitted by state law, provide
