2026 NHA CMAA REVIEW ALL TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - ✔✔Part of the U.S.
Department of Labor with the mission to ensure workplace safety and a healthy working
environment
✔✔Exposure Control Plan (ECP) - ✔✔Plan that describes tasks employees must
perform if there is a risk of exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials,
and what procedures are in place to track employee exposures.
✔✔fraud - ✔✔Making false statements of representations of material facts to obtain
some benefit or payment for which no entitlement would otherwise exist.
✔✔Upcoding - ✔✔Assigning a diagnosis or procedure code at a higher level than the
documentation supports, such as coding bronchitis as pneumonia.
✔✔Unbundling - ✔✔Using multiple codes that describe dierent components of a
treatment instead of using a single code that describes all steps of the procedure.
✔✔Program abuse - ✔✔Practices that, either directly or indirectly, result in unnecessary
costs to government-funded programs.
, ✔✔medical necessity - ✔✔The documented need for a particular medical intervention.
✔✔Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) - ✔✔A compilation of
information about fraud and abuse.
✔✔Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program (HCFAP) - ✔✔Program that protects
Medicare and other HHS programs from fraud and abuse by conducting audits,
investigations, and inspections.
✔✔Medigap - ✔✔A private health insurance that pays for most of the charges not
covered by Parts A and B.
✔✔Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) - ✔✔A group of codes
and descriptors used to represent health care procedures, supplies, products, and
services
✔✔Patient's Bill of Rights. - ✔✔A list of guarantees for people receiving medical care
✔✔referral - ✔✔Written recommendation to a specialist
✔✔shared decision making - ✔✔A patient and provider work together to decide on a
treatment plan.
✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔Discontinuing medical care without giving the proper notice or
providing a competent replacement.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔A patient presents for treatment, such as extending an arm to
allow a venipuncture to be performed.
✔✔verbal consent - ✔✔Consent for treatment given out loud in response to a pointed
question.
✔✔informed consent - ✔✔Providers explain medical or diagnostic procedures, surgical
interventions, and the benefits and risks involved, giving patients an opportunity to ask
questions and consent before medical intervention is provided
✔✔assault and battery - ✔✔Willful and unlawful use of intimidation and physical force or
violence on another person
✔✔emancipated minor - ✔✔A person younger than the age of majority (usually 18 to 21
years of age) who is married, in the armed forces, living apart from parents or a
guardian, or self-supporting
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - ✔✔Part of the U.S.
Department of Labor with the mission to ensure workplace safety and a healthy working
environment
✔✔Exposure Control Plan (ECP) - ✔✔Plan that describes tasks employees must
perform if there is a risk of exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials,
and what procedures are in place to track employee exposures.
✔✔fraud - ✔✔Making false statements of representations of material facts to obtain
some benefit or payment for which no entitlement would otherwise exist.
✔✔Upcoding - ✔✔Assigning a diagnosis or procedure code at a higher level than the
documentation supports, such as coding bronchitis as pneumonia.
✔✔Unbundling - ✔✔Using multiple codes that describe dierent components of a
treatment instead of using a single code that describes all steps of the procedure.
✔✔Program abuse - ✔✔Practices that, either directly or indirectly, result in unnecessary
costs to government-funded programs.
, ✔✔medical necessity - ✔✔The documented need for a particular medical intervention.
✔✔Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) - ✔✔A compilation of
information about fraud and abuse.
✔✔Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program (HCFAP) - ✔✔Program that protects
Medicare and other HHS programs from fraud and abuse by conducting audits,
investigations, and inspections.
✔✔Medigap - ✔✔A private health insurance that pays for most of the charges not
covered by Parts A and B.
✔✔Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) - ✔✔A group of codes
and descriptors used to represent health care procedures, supplies, products, and
services
✔✔Patient's Bill of Rights. - ✔✔A list of guarantees for people receiving medical care
✔✔referral - ✔✔Written recommendation to a specialist
✔✔shared decision making - ✔✔A patient and provider work together to decide on a
treatment plan.
✔✔Abandonment - ✔✔Discontinuing medical care without giving the proper notice or
providing a competent replacement.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔A patient presents for treatment, such as extending an arm to
allow a venipuncture to be performed.
✔✔verbal consent - ✔✔Consent for treatment given out loud in response to a pointed
question.
✔✔informed consent - ✔✔Providers explain medical or diagnostic procedures, surgical
interventions, and the benefits and risks involved, giving patients an opportunity to ask
questions and consent before medical intervention is provided
✔✔assault and battery - ✔✔Willful and unlawful use of intimidation and physical force or
violence on another person
✔✔emancipated minor - ✔✔A person younger than the age of majority (usually 18 to 21
years of age) who is married, in the armed forces, living apart from parents or a
guardian, or self-supporting
