Medical assistant Module 1
Common roles and responsibilities of medical assistants - correct answer
✔Administrative duties: greeting patients, handling correspondence, and
answering telephones.
Clinical duties: obtaining medical histories from patients, explaining
treatments/procedures, drawing laboratory tests, and preparing/administering
immunizations.
Health care licensure - correct answer ✔Licensure is state-regulated and
issued upon graduation from a medical or chiropractic institute. This is
mandatory for physicians. Medical assistants are not required to be licensed,
but some states require licenses for specific services.
Certification - correct answer ✔Certification is generally optional, but some
states require official education and training for a medical assistant to
administer medication, perform phlebotomy procedures, or enter prescriptions
into the computerized physician order entry program. Requires continuing
education to keep current. Advantages can include increased initial job
placement, higher wages, and career advancement opportunities.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - correct answer ✔Groups of
physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers that provide coordinated
care to Medicare patients. Shares savings with the Medicare program.
Capitation - correct answer ✔Payment model in which patients are assigned
per-member, per-month payment based on age, race, sex, lifestyle, medical
history, and benefit design. Under partial- or blended-capitation models, only
specific types or categories of service are paid on a basis of capitation.
, Global budget - correct answer ✔A fixed dollar amount paid annually for all
care. Providers determine how money is spent. This model limits the level and
rate of health care cost increase.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) - correct answer ✔A plan that
contracts with a medical center or group of providers for preventative and
acute care. HMOs generally require referrals to specialists, as well as
precertification and preauthorization for admissions, procedures and
treatments
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) - correct answer ✔Care delivery
model in which the primary care provider coordinates treatment to ensure
patients receive and understand the needed care.
pay for performance - correct answer ✔Reimbursement model in which
providers only get paid if they meet a benchmark for quality and efficiency of
care provided
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) - correct answer ✔Flexible plan in
which patients can go directly to specialists without being referred. Patients
can see any provider, but providers in-network usually cost less.
Allopathic - correct answer ✔Homeopathic medicine; categorized by an effort
to counteract the symptoms of a disease by administration of treatments that
produce effects opposite to the symptoms.
ambulatory - correct answer ✔able to walk
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - correct answer ✔Also known as
computerized provider order entry(CPOE), a process of electronic data entry
of provider instructions for treatment.
Common roles and responsibilities of medical assistants - correct answer
✔Administrative duties: greeting patients, handling correspondence, and
answering telephones.
Clinical duties: obtaining medical histories from patients, explaining
treatments/procedures, drawing laboratory tests, and preparing/administering
immunizations.
Health care licensure - correct answer ✔Licensure is state-regulated and
issued upon graduation from a medical or chiropractic institute. This is
mandatory for physicians. Medical assistants are not required to be licensed,
but some states require licenses for specific services.
Certification - correct answer ✔Certification is generally optional, but some
states require official education and training for a medical assistant to
administer medication, perform phlebotomy procedures, or enter prescriptions
into the computerized physician order entry program. Requires continuing
education to keep current. Advantages can include increased initial job
placement, higher wages, and career advancement opportunities.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - correct answer ✔Groups of
physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers that provide coordinated
care to Medicare patients. Shares savings with the Medicare program.
Capitation - correct answer ✔Payment model in which patients are assigned
per-member, per-month payment based on age, race, sex, lifestyle, medical
history, and benefit design. Under partial- or blended-capitation models, only
specific types or categories of service are paid on a basis of capitation.
, Global budget - correct answer ✔A fixed dollar amount paid annually for all
care. Providers determine how money is spent. This model limits the level and
rate of health care cost increase.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) - correct answer ✔A plan that
contracts with a medical center or group of providers for preventative and
acute care. HMOs generally require referrals to specialists, as well as
precertification and preauthorization for admissions, procedures and
treatments
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) - correct answer ✔Care delivery
model in which the primary care provider coordinates treatment to ensure
patients receive and understand the needed care.
pay for performance - correct answer ✔Reimbursement model in which
providers only get paid if they meet a benchmark for quality and efficiency of
care provided
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) - correct answer ✔Flexible plan in
which patients can go directly to specialists without being referred. Patients
can see any provider, but providers in-network usually cost less.
Allopathic - correct answer ✔Homeopathic medicine; categorized by an effort
to counteract the symptoms of a disease by administration of treatments that
produce effects opposite to the symptoms.
ambulatory - correct answer ✔able to walk
Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) - correct answer ✔Also known as
computerized provider order entry(CPOE), a process of electronic data entry
of provider instructions for treatment.
