MAST 1100 Final (with Complete Solutions) 2024.

What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? correct answers formulary What is utilization review? correct answers a process to determine whether health care is medically necessary When a patient comes to the office for care and then leaves and goes home,what type of care has the patient received? correct answers ambulatory What is the name for treatment that reduces symptoms of a disease, but does not cure the disease? correct answers palliative What type of health care encourages regular checkups, immunizations, and well-child visits? correct answers routine care What is it called when a physician receives one monthly fee from the insurance company for each subscriber in his or her practice? correct answers capitation What is the name for an insurance plan's list of approved medications? correct answers formulary A system by which a person (or person's employer) pays an insurance company a yearly amount of money in exchange for the insurance company's paying some or most of the person's medical expenses for that year is: correct answers health insurance What type of insurance plan pays a physician separately for each procedure that was performed? correct answers fee-for-service insurance Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88) correct answers standards set for all laboratories to ensure quality patient care; provisions include requirements for quality control and assurance, for the use of proficiency tests, and for certain levels of personnel to perform and supervise work done in the clinical laboratory Traditionally, what distinguished a clinic from other types of medical offices? correct answers Care was free or very-low cost Where is patient billing usually performed? correct answers Billing may be done in an individual office, in a centralized location for several offices, or by a private billing service Why is Hippocrates often called the father of Western Medicine? correct answers He believed that disease was caused by physical and environmental factors that could be studied. which of the following is/are important character traits for a medical assistant correct answers being tolerant of different beliefs and attitudes