CADENCE SCHEGISTRAR COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: You cannot assign a referral to an appointment after that
appointment has been scheduled.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: A single referral record can be assigned to only one appointment.
✔✔1. So the HIM team can determine which encounters may need additional internal
review before releasing to non-study requests 2. Study staff can see a compiled listing
of encounters related to their study 3. Study staff and clinical providers can more easily
identify research-related encounters in Chart Review 4. Mixed" (study and non-study)
visits can be handled within one encounter 5. Billing can be accurately handled -
✔✔Name 5 reasons why it is important to link/flag an encounter to an active research
study.
✔✔Study staff and some other users (ex. scheduling staff) can link an encounter to a
study during scheduling, registration, check-in, on the fly, or even during the encounter
itself - ✔✔Where in an appointment's process can linking occur?
✔✔As early as possible, before charges start flowing through the system - ✔✔When is
the ideal time for linking an encounter to a study?
, ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: Encounter association (a.k.a. encounter linking/encounter flagging) is
only done for patients who are active in a study.
✔✔Yellow - ✔✔On a provider's schedule, what color would indicate that a slot had no
regular openings, but at least one overbook appointment available?
✔✔Red - ✔✔On a provider's schedule, what color would indicate that a slot is
unavailable?
✔✔Click Accept on the Appointment Review window - ✔✔A patient's appointment is
actually scheduled after you ___________.
✔✔Auto search - ✔✔As you are scheduling an appointment, you select a check box on
the Make Appt form. The Schedule Scanner disappears and when you click Search, you
are taken to the Recommended Solutions form rather than the provider's schedule.
What check box did you select?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: To be considered a joint appointment, the times scheduled for both
providers must be the same, overlap, or touch.
✔✔Patient - ✔✔In what type of workqueue can you find patient encounters that are
missing information?
✔✔Member eff to - ✔✔As you are pre-registering a patient, she tells you that her
coverage is no longer effective. What field would you use to terminate the coverage?
✔✔Blocks - ✔✔Time slots reserved for a specific visit type or type of patient are called:
✔✔Part of a recurring series - ✔✔On a patient's appointment desk, you see multiple
future appointments with an "R" next to them. This indicates that the appointment is:
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: You are able to schedule multiple visit types with different providers
in the same entry process.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: You can make an existing appointment recur.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: You can create a new patient record without searching for the
patient first.
✔✔payor, plan - ✔✔A ______________ is an insuring entity. A ___________ is a
specific set of benefits.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: The guarantor and subscriber can be two different people or entities
when registering a dependent patient.
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: You cannot assign a referral to an appointment after that
appointment has been scheduled.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: A single referral record can be assigned to only one appointment.
✔✔1. So the HIM team can determine which encounters may need additional internal
review before releasing to non-study requests 2. Study staff can see a compiled listing
of encounters related to their study 3. Study staff and clinical providers can more easily
identify research-related encounters in Chart Review 4. Mixed" (study and non-study)
visits can be handled within one encounter 5. Billing can be accurately handled -
✔✔Name 5 reasons why it is important to link/flag an encounter to an active research
study.
✔✔Study staff and some other users (ex. scheduling staff) can link an encounter to a
study during scheduling, registration, check-in, on the fly, or even during the encounter
itself - ✔✔Where in an appointment's process can linking occur?
✔✔As early as possible, before charges start flowing through the system - ✔✔When is
the ideal time for linking an encounter to a study?
, ✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: Encounter association (a.k.a. encounter linking/encounter flagging) is
only done for patients who are active in a study.
✔✔Yellow - ✔✔On a provider's schedule, what color would indicate that a slot had no
regular openings, but at least one overbook appointment available?
✔✔Red - ✔✔On a provider's schedule, what color would indicate that a slot is
unavailable?
✔✔Click Accept on the Appointment Review window - ✔✔A patient's appointment is
actually scheduled after you ___________.
✔✔Auto search - ✔✔As you are scheduling an appointment, you select a check box on
the Make Appt form. The Schedule Scanner disappears and when you click Search, you
are taken to the Recommended Solutions form rather than the provider's schedule.
What check box did you select?
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: To be considered a joint appointment, the times scheduled for both
providers must be the same, overlap, or touch.
✔✔Patient - ✔✔In what type of workqueue can you find patient encounters that are
missing information?
✔✔Member eff to - ✔✔As you are pre-registering a patient, she tells you that her
coverage is no longer effective. What field would you use to terminate the coverage?
✔✔Blocks - ✔✔Time slots reserved for a specific visit type or type of patient are called:
✔✔Part of a recurring series - ✔✔On a patient's appointment desk, you see multiple
future appointments with an "R" next to them. This indicates that the appointment is:
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: You are able to schedule multiple visit types with different providers
in the same entry process.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: You can make an existing appointment recur.
✔✔False - ✔✔T/F: You can create a new patient record without searching for the
patient first.
✔✔payor, plan - ✔✔A ______________ is an insuring entity. A ___________ is a
specific set of benefits.
✔✔True - ✔✔T/F: The guarantor and subscriber can be two different people or entities
when registering a dependent patient.
