MAST 1100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS. VERIFIED
2025/2026.
What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? - ANS formulary
What is utilization review? - ANS a process to determine whether health care is medically
necessary
When a patient comes to the office for care and then leaves and goes home,what type of care
has the patient received? - ANS ambulatory
What is the name for treatment that reduces symptoms of a disease, but does not cure the
disease? - ANS palliative
What type of health care encourages regular checkups, immunizations, and well-child visits? -
ANS routine care
What is it called when a physician receives one monthly fee from the insurance company for
each subscriber in his or her practice? - ANS capitation
What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? - ANS formulary
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, A system by which a person (or person's employer) pays an insurance company a yearly amount
of money in exchange for the insurance company's paying some or most of the person's medical
expenses for that year is: - ANS health insurance
What type of insurance plan pays a physician separately for each procedure that was
performed? - ANS fee-for-service insurance
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88) - ANS standards set for all
laboratories to ensure quality patient care; provisions include requirements for quality control
and assurance, for the use of proficiency tests, and for certain levels of personnel to perform
and supervise work done in the clinical laboratory
Traditionally, what distinguished a clinic from other types of medical offices? - ANS Care was
free or very-low cost
Where is patient billing usually performed? - ANS Billing may be done in an individual office,
in a centralized location for several offices, or by a private billing service
Why is Hippocrates often called the father of Western Medicine? - ANS He believed that
disease was caused by physical and environmental factors that could be studied.
which of the following is/are important character traits for a medical assistant - ANS being
tolerant of different beliefs and attitudes
why are neatness and good grooming important for medical assistant - ANS all of the above
what is the name given to the practical experience in a physician office that is included in a
medical assisting program - ANS externship
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS. VERIFIED
2025/2026.
What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? - ANS formulary
What is utilization review? - ANS a process to determine whether health care is medically
necessary
When a patient comes to the office for care and then leaves and goes home,what type of care
has the patient received? - ANS ambulatory
What is the name for treatment that reduces symptoms of a disease, but does not cure the
disease? - ANS palliative
What type of health care encourages regular checkups, immunizations, and well-child visits? -
ANS routine care
What is it called when a physician receives one monthly fee from the insurance company for
each subscriber in his or her practice? - ANS capitation
What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? - ANS formulary
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, A system by which a person (or person's employer) pays an insurance company a yearly amount
of money in exchange for the insurance company's paying some or most of the person's medical
expenses for that year is: - ANS health insurance
What type of insurance plan pays a physician separately for each procedure that was
performed? - ANS fee-for-service insurance
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88) - ANS standards set for all
laboratories to ensure quality patient care; provisions include requirements for quality control
and assurance, for the use of proficiency tests, and for certain levels of personnel to perform
and supervise work done in the clinical laboratory
Traditionally, what distinguished a clinic from other types of medical offices? - ANS Care was
free or very-low cost
Where is patient billing usually performed? - ANS Billing may be done in an individual office,
in a centralized location for several offices, or by a private billing service
Why is Hippocrates often called the father of Western Medicine? - ANS He believed that
disease was caused by physical and environmental factors that could be studied.
which of the following is/are important character traits for a medical assistant - ANS being
tolerant of different beliefs and attitudes
why are neatness and good grooming important for medical assistant - ANS all of the above
what is the name given to the practical experience in a physician office that is included in a
medical assisting program - ANS externship
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