Questions & Answers
Right and wrong conduct is know as - ANSWER:Ethics
The most common type of medical tort liability is - ANSWER:Neglience
The withdrawal of a physican from the care of a patient w/o reasonable notice of such discharge from
the case by the patient is - ANSWER:Abandonment
an unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another - ANSWER:Assult
Negligence by a professional person is called - ANSWER:Malpractice
The ability to see things from another point of view is - ANSWER:Empathy
A legal statement of how an individuals property is to be distributed after death - ANSWER:A person's
WILL
Failure to something that a reasonable person would do under ordinary circumstances that ends uo
causing harm to another person/property is - ANSWER:Negilence
Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his/her right mind is - ANSWER:Consent
Lack of physical or mental fitness is - ANSWER:Incompetence
A person who is no longer under the care, custody, or supervison of a parent is - ANSWER:enmancipated
minor
A deliberate physical attack upon a person is - ANSWER:Battery
The study of moral issues, questions and problems arising in the practice of medicine and the biomedical
research is - ANSWER:Bioethics
Conduct, Courtesy and manner that are custumarily used in the medical office by medical professionals
is - ANSWER:Medical Etiquette
______is a federal regulation that requires health care professionals to protect the privacy and
confidentiality of a patient's health information is - ANSWER:HIPPA
HIPPA stands for what? - ANSWER:Health insurance portability and accountability act
A system that has large quanties of data and can be accessed, researchedm sorted and arranged by a
computer is - ANSWER:Database management
When writing a business letter, the salutaion of a letter should be followed by a - ANSWER:colon
A newsletter that weighs less than one pound would be considered - ANSWER:3RD classmail
What office instrument is designed to recieve and send printed documents - ANSWER:Fax machine
, before placing a caller on hold you should - ANSWER:ask the caller if they can be put on hold, wait for a
reply, obtain a return phone number and if this is a medical emergency, tell them to hang up or dial 911
an incoming call should be answered by the - ANSWER:third ring
While handling the mail, the MA should - ANSWER:Attach an envelope to a correspondence
A letter should be folded in____using a #10 envelope - ANSWER:3rd face-up
Body language, body posture, space and distance is an example of - ANSWER:Non- Verbal
communication
Benefits made in form of cash payments - ANSWER:indemnities
Previous injury, diease of physical condition before health policy is - ANSWER:pre-existing conditon
a sum of money provided in an insurance policy, payable for covered services - ANSWER:Benefits
when PTS has health ins the % covered services that is responsibilty of the PT to pay - ANSWER:co-
insurance
Form of benefits paid by the employer providing cash payments to workers injured - ANSWER:worker's
comphensation
interval after a payment is due to the ins company in which the policy holder may make payments and
the policy still remains - ANSWER:Grace period
The Tri-Care fiscalyris from (its a date) - ANSWER:Oct. 1st to Sept. 30th
number on the employees withholding expem. certificate is - ANSWER:W-4
the ICD9CM is used to code - ANSWER:services rendered
Below/low - ANSWER:hypo
menstration begins - ANSWER:menarche
menstration stops - ANSWER:menopause
involuntary movement - ANSWER:reflex
paralysis from the wasit down - ANSWER:paraplegia
paralysis from the neck down - ANSWER:quadriplegia
dressing - ANSWER:DSG
turning palm forward - ANSWER:supination
decrease in size or awasting - ANSWER:atrophy
moving body part AWAY from the body - ANSWER:abduction
abnormal shortening of a muscle - ANSWER:contracture