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A Medical Record Contains... - ANSWER Personal information, financial information, medical information and social information Personal/Financial Information - ANSWER Includes insurance data, marital status, next of kin, and other items collected for personal identification Medical Information - ANSWER Includes the chief complaint, family/patient medical history, results of exams, physical exam form, lab reports, etc. Social Information - ANSWER Includes items such as race, ethnicity, hobbies, lifestyle choices Self-Insure - ANSWER A method in which the employer pays directly for the employees medical bills Medicare - ANSWER Federal program for patients that are either over the age of 65, disabled, or considered end-stage renal disease patients Medicaid - ANSWER Federal program, state administered, for individuals/families that have very low income TRICARE - ANSWER A benefit program for members of the armed forces, as well as retired service personnel and they're families CHAMPVA - ANSWER A benefit program for veterans with service-related disabilities Workers' Compensation - ANSWER Coverage through employers for partners who suffer from job-related injuries Person Who Owns Insurance Policy - ANSWER Member, subscriber, insured, policyholder Dependents - ANSWER Family members who are chores tuner the members insurance policy Premium - ANSWER Monthly payment to the insurance company to receive coverage (usually deducted from paycheck) Allowed Amount - ANSWER The amount charged for service determined by the insurance company Provider - ANSWER Physician, specialist, or any person that provides medical care Participating Provider (Preferred) - ANSWER Physicians who agree to accept the allowed amount from the insurance company as a payment in full Copayment - ANSWER A fixed amount a patient may be required to pay at the time of their appointment Coinsurance - ANSWER A set percentage of charges that the patient pays in surfing to the guidelines set forth by their policy (80/20) Deductible - ANSWER A set amount the patient may be required to pay the provider before they can receive services Beneficiary - ANSWER A patient covered by a federal program, such as Medicare or Medicaid Word Root - ANSWER Foundation of a med term Suffix - ANSWER Med term ending Prefix - ANSWER Med term beginning Combing Vowel - ANSWER Links the root to the suffix or another root Combing Form - ANSWER Word root plus the appropriate combining vowel Arthr/o - ANSWER Joint Bi/o - ANSWER Life Cardi/o - ANSWER Heart Carcin/o - ANSWER Cancerous, cancer Cephal/o - ANSWER Head Cerebr/o - ANSWER Cerebrum Cyt/o - ANSWER Cell Dent/l - ANSWER Teeth Derm/o - ANSWER Skin Electr/o - ANSWER Electrical activity Enter/o - ANSWER Intestines Fet/o - ANSWER Fetus Gastr/o - ANSWER Stomach Rhin/o - ANSWER Nose Sarc/o - ANSWER Flesh Thromb/o - ANSWER Clotting Ur/o - ANSWER Urinary tract -al - ANSWER Pertaining to -algia - ANSWER Pain -dynia - ANSWER Pain -ectomy - ANSWER Excision, removal -emia - ANSWER Blood condition -genic - ANSWER Produced by, pertaining to producing -globin - ANSWER Protein -itis - ANSWER Inflammation -oma - ANSWER Tumor, mass swelling -osis - ANSWER Condition, usually abnormal -pathy - ANSWER Disease condition -sis - ANSWER State of; condition Ante- - ANSWER Before, in front of