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1. What type of provider goes through approximately 26 Physician
Assistant (PA)
1/2 months of education and is licensed to
practice medicine with the oversight of a
physician?
2. The describes whether specific medical National Coverage
items, services, treatment procedures, or Deter- minations
technologies are considered medically
necessary under Medicare
3. LCD's only have jurisdiction in their area. Regional
4. ABN stands for Advance Beneficiary No-
tice
5. HIPPA was made into law in what year? 1996
6. What will the scope is a compliance program
Size and resources of the
depend on? physician's practice
7. According to the OIG, internal monitoring and
Periodic audits
audit- ing should be performed by what
means?
Salary survey
8. AAPC has what to determine current year's
coder salaries?
Networking
9. The ASPC offers over 440 local chapters
across the country and in the Bahamas for
the purpose of
10. An abdominal aortic aneurysm is significant because It is a
weakness in a large
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artery and rupture
could be deadly
11. What distinguishes a "sentinel" node from the A sentinel node is the
lymph nodes? first lymph node in a
group of
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nodes to be reached
by metastasizing cancer
cells
12. The mediastinum contains all of the following except Lungs
13. The term "pneumomediastinum" describes what con- The presence
of air in the
dition? mediastinum
14. The structure of the male anatomy carrying sperm out Vas
deferens
of the epididymis is called:
15. The term "episiotomy" best describes a An incision made in
procedure of what type? the perineum to
enlarge the passage
for the fetus dur- ing
delivery
16. Which gland is located on the superior surface
of the kidney? Adrenal gland
17. What is the function of the thyroid gland? It secretes hormones
reg-
ulating body
metabolism and blood
calcium
18. Which of the following is true about the marrow
tympanic membrane? collected
from a
19. Bone marrow harvesting is a procedure to close
obtain bone marrow from a donor. Bone relative is:
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