NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Medical office privacy polices and procedures should be reviewed - Correct
Answer Every year
Schedule Drugs - Correct Answer 1 - high abuse, no medical necessity
(LSD)
2 - high abuse and dependency (opium, morphine, cocaine)
3 - low abuse may cause dependency (steroids, analgesics, barbiturates)
4 - low abuse limited dependency
5 - low abuse
PHI for deceased patient expires - Correct Answer 50 years after death
PHI must be made available to - Correct Answer Patients and non-patients
A medical practice can respond to a patient's request to amend a record
within how many days? - Correct Answer Within 60
Business Associate Agreement is required for - Correct Answer 3rd party
vendors who have access to PHI
The patient's written permission to disclose information for uses outside of
treatment, payment and health operations is called - Correct Answer
Authorization
Individual Identifiable Health Information (IIHI) includes - Correct Answer
Any information that may be used to identify a patient
Demographic info - name, address, SSN, DOB, Zip Code
,NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Diagnosis Procedures, Symptoms
Insurance info such as employer or carrier
Criminal penalties for disclosing patient health info are - Correct Answer
$250,000 and up to 10 years in prison
Who is authorized to access medical records? - Correct Answer Staff
members who have it as part of their job description
Informed consent includes - Correct Answer Explain medical procedure,
describe potential risks for procedure, present therapeutic alteranatives
Spina Bifida - Correct Answer Walls of vertebral foramen are not properly
formed resulting in a child's spinal cord to protrude
Parathormone or Parathyroid hormone function/produced by - Correct
Answer Raises blood calcium levels
Produced by the parathyroid
Calcitonin function + produced/secreted by - Correct Answer Lowers blood
calcium levels
Produced/Secreted by the thyroid
Vit D - Correct Answer Helps body absorb calcium
Osteoblast cells - Correct Answer Form new bone
Osteoclast cells - Correct Answer Breakdown bone
,NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Osteocytes - Correct Answer Maintain bone matrix
Axial skeleton includes - Correct Answer Skull, spinal column, ribs,
sternum
Appendicular skeleton includes - Correct Answer Shoulder girdle, pelvic
girdle, arm, leg
Joints + Range of Motion (immovable, partially moveable, freely moveable) -
Correct Answer Fibrous - immovable
Cartilaginous - partially moveable
Synovial - freely moveable
Hippocampus (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Location -
medial temporal lobe of brain
Regulates - new memories, connected with learning and emotions,
associated with spatial navigation, long term memory
Alzheimer's
Midbrain (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Front of brain stem
Controls eye mvmt, voluntary muscles, respiratory muscles, regulates body
temp
Strokes, Parkinson's
, NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Pons (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Part of brain stem
located b/w medulla oblongata and thalamus
Regulates sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder control, hearing,
equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions
Coma
Cerebellum (location, function, damage results in) - Correct Answer
Located at base of skull
COORDINATES MVMT - timing and precision of voluntary mvmt, maintained
balance, muscle tone, and posture
Cerebellum is damaged motor control problems occur
Anterior Pituitary Gland Produces and Secretes which hormones - Correct
Answer TSH, LH, FSH, prolactin, growth hormone, ACTH
(adrenocrticotrophic)
Posterior pituitary stores and releases - Correct Answer ADH (antidiuretic
hormone) and oxytocin
Medulla Oblongata (location, regulates, damage results in) - Correct
Answer Located at bottom of brain stem
Regulates autonomic functions such as heartbeat, rate of respiration, BP,
reflex actions (sneezing, coughing, swallowing)
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Medical office privacy polices and procedures should be reviewed - Correct
Answer Every year
Schedule Drugs - Correct Answer 1 - high abuse, no medical necessity
(LSD)
2 - high abuse and dependency (opium, morphine, cocaine)
3 - low abuse may cause dependency (steroids, analgesics, barbiturates)
4 - low abuse limited dependency
5 - low abuse
PHI for deceased patient expires - Correct Answer 50 years after death
PHI must be made available to - Correct Answer Patients and non-patients
A medical practice can respond to a patient's request to amend a record
within how many days? - Correct Answer Within 60
Business Associate Agreement is required for - Correct Answer 3rd party
vendors who have access to PHI
The patient's written permission to disclose information for uses outside of
treatment, payment and health operations is called - Correct Answer
Authorization
Individual Identifiable Health Information (IIHI) includes - Correct Answer
Any information that may be used to identify a patient
Demographic info - name, address, SSN, DOB, Zip Code
,NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Diagnosis Procedures, Symptoms
Insurance info such as employer or carrier
Criminal penalties for disclosing patient health info are - Correct Answer
$250,000 and up to 10 years in prison
Who is authorized to access medical records? - Correct Answer Staff
members who have it as part of their job description
Informed consent includes - Correct Answer Explain medical procedure,
describe potential risks for procedure, present therapeutic alteranatives
Spina Bifida - Correct Answer Walls of vertebral foramen are not properly
formed resulting in a child's spinal cord to protrude
Parathormone or Parathyroid hormone function/produced by - Correct
Answer Raises blood calcium levels
Produced by the parathyroid
Calcitonin function + produced/secreted by - Correct Answer Lowers blood
calcium levels
Produced/Secreted by the thyroid
Vit D - Correct Answer Helps body absorb calcium
Osteoblast cells - Correct Answer Form new bone
Osteoclast cells - Correct Answer Breakdown bone
,NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Osteocytes - Correct Answer Maintain bone matrix
Axial skeleton includes - Correct Answer Skull, spinal column, ribs,
sternum
Appendicular skeleton includes - Correct Answer Shoulder girdle, pelvic
girdle, arm, leg
Joints + Range of Motion (immovable, partially moveable, freely moveable) -
Correct Answer Fibrous - immovable
Cartilaginous - partially moveable
Synovial - freely moveable
Hippocampus (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Location -
medial temporal lobe of brain
Regulates - new memories, connected with learning and emotions,
associated with spatial navigation, long term memory
Alzheimer's
Midbrain (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Front of brain stem
Controls eye mvmt, voluntary muscles, respiratory muscles, regulates body
temp
Strokes, Parkinson's
, NCCAOM BIO MED TCM TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025 A+ STUDY GUIDE
Pons (location, function, disease) - Correct Answer Part of brain stem
located b/w medulla oblongata and thalamus
Regulates sleep, respiration, swallowing, bladder control, hearing,
equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions
Coma
Cerebellum (location, function, damage results in) - Correct Answer
Located at base of skull
COORDINATES MVMT - timing and precision of voluntary mvmt, maintained
balance, muscle tone, and posture
Cerebellum is damaged motor control problems occur
Anterior Pituitary Gland Produces and Secretes which hormones - Correct
Answer TSH, LH, FSH, prolactin, growth hormone, ACTH
(adrenocrticotrophic)
Posterior pituitary stores and releases - Correct Answer ADH (antidiuretic
hormone) and oxytocin
Medulla Oblongata (location, regulates, damage results in) - Correct
Answer Located at bottom of brain stem
Regulates autonomic functions such as heartbeat, rate of respiration, BP,
reflex actions (sneezing, coughing, swallowing)
