US Healthcare System Chapter 7 UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Ambulatory care - CORRECT ANSWER - Patients are fully mobile; they can bring
themselves to the physician's office or to a clinic.
Acute care - CORRECT ANSWER - Implies a level of urgency, needs access to healthcare
services immediately
Primary care - CORRECT ANSWER - Basic and routine care delivered in an office or
clinic (only one used with regularity)
Office manager - CORRECT ANSWER - responsible for the practice business affairs
The Health Information Record (what it contains...) - CORRECT ANSWER - Patient's
personal, financial, and social data
Patient's medical data
Descriptions of the patient's history, condition, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, and the
results of treatment
HIPAA protects the privacy of the entire record.
group practice - CORRECT ANSWER - allows the individual provider to share facilities,
equipment, and personnel.
Partnership - CORRECT ANSWER - is traditional legal structure for medical group
practice.
Each partner remains responsible or liable for debts.
Limited liability partnership (LLP) - CORRECT ANSWER - (special type of partnership)
is where each partner's liability is limited to his or her capital contribution.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Ambulatory care - CORRECT ANSWER - Patients are fully mobile; they can bring
themselves to the physician's office or to a clinic.
Acute care - CORRECT ANSWER - Implies a level of urgency, needs access to healthcare
services immediately
Primary care - CORRECT ANSWER - Basic and routine care delivered in an office or
clinic (only one used with regularity)
Office manager - CORRECT ANSWER - responsible for the practice business affairs
The Health Information Record (what it contains...) - CORRECT ANSWER - Patient's
personal, financial, and social data
Patient's medical data
Descriptions of the patient's history, condition, diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, and the
results of treatment
HIPAA protects the privacy of the entire record.
group practice - CORRECT ANSWER - allows the individual provider to share facilities,
equipment, and personnel.
Partnership - CORRECT ANSWER - is traditional legal structure for medical group
practice.
Each partner remains responsible or liable for debts.
Limited liability partnership (LLP) - CORRECT ANSWER - (special type of partnership)
is where each partner's liability is limited to his or her capital contribution.
