Physician Practice Management Midterm
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The _____ is the first line of care delivery - CORRECT ANSWER Physician practice
The physician provides _____ care that sustains health and well-being - CORRECT
ANSWER Longitudinal
The father of modern quality managemenr - CORRECT ANSWER W. Edwards Deming
Holds that every organization is composed of four main inter-related components, people, and
processes which depend on management to carefully orchestrate the interaction - CORRECT
ANSWER Profound knowledge
4 components, processes, and people contained in the profound knowledge theory - CORRECT
ANSWER Appreciation of system; theory of knowledge; psychology of change; knowledge
about variation
Practice managers need to be committed to ______ and be active in professional organizations to
ensure they are up-to-date on current knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER Lifelong learning
Academic arm of MGMA - CORRECT ANSWER ACMPE
The premier practice management education and networking group for practice managers -
CORRECT ANSWER MGMA
_____ offers a rigorous certification program in practice management that is widely recognized
in the industry - CORRECT ANSWER ACMPE
,8 areas that are essential for practice manager to understand - CORRECT ANSWER Business
operations, HR management, organizational governance, quality management, financial
management, information management, patient care systems, risk management
A voluntary system of standards that practitioners meet to demonstrate accomplishment or ability
in their profession - CORRECT ANSWER Certification
Medical practice and the healthcare system both are built on the foundation of the ________ -
CORRECT ANSWER Physician-patient relationship
The ______ accounts for the most healthcare system costs - CORRECT
ANSWER Physician's pen
How an individual acts, especially toward others - CORRECT ANSWER Behavior
T/F: Medicine, whether directly or indirectly influences every aspect of human life - CORRECT
ANSWER True
Aristotle lives ans says the body is made up of 4 humors or liquids - CORRECT
ANSWER 384-322 BC
Andreas Vesalius publishes The Fabric of the Human Body - CORRECT ANSWER 1543
Edward Jenner invents vaccination against smallpox - CORRECT ANSWER 1796
Chloroform is used as an anesthetic by James Simpson - CORRECT ANSWER 1847
American Association of Medical Colleges is founded - CORRECT ANSWER 1876
, Louis Pasteur invents a vaccine for chicken pox - CORRECT ANSWER 1880
The Abraham Flexner report on medical education is published - CORRECT ANSWER 1910
Medicare and Medicaid are passed into law - CORRECT ANSWER 1965
The HMO Act is passed - CORRECT ANSWER 1973
President Bush signs the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, enacting a physician payment
schedule based on a resource-based relative value scale - CORRECT ANSWER 1989
HIPAA is passed when? - CORRECT ANSWER 1996
The Triple Aim is introduced by IOM - CORRECT ANSWER 2008
A system for keeping score in business, using dollars - CORRECT ANSWER Accounting
Recent years have seen more medical practices embedded in _____ - CORRECT
ANSWER Large HCOs
A medical practice consisting of two or more practitioners working in a common management
and administrative structure - CORRECT ANSWER Group practice
Groups that focus on one aspect of medicine, such as general surgery, family practice,
cardiology, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER Single-specialty
Medical groups that contain more than one medical specialty in the organization and are highly
integrated, with a common governance leadership, and common management structure, and they
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The _____ is the first line of care delivery - CORRECT ANSWER Physician practice
The physician provides _____ care that sustains health and well-being - CORRECT
ANSWER Longitudinal
The father of modern quality managemenr - CORRECT ANSWER W. Edwards Deming
Holds that every organization is composed of four main inter-related components, people, and
processes which depend on management to carefully orchestrate the interaction - CORRECT
ANSWER Profound knowledge
4 components, processes, and people contained in the profound knowledge theory - CORRECT
ANSWER Appreciation of system; theory of knowledge; psychology of change; knowledge
about variation
Practice managers need to be committed to ______ and be active in professional organizations to
ensure they are up-to-date on current knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER Lifelong learning
Academic arm of MGMA - CORRECT ANSWER ACMPE
The premier practice management education and networking group for practice managers -
CORRECT ANSWER MGMA
_____ offers a rigorous certification program in practice management that is widely recognized
in the industry - CORRECT ANSWER ACMPE
,8 areas that are essential for practice manager to understand - CORRECT ANSWER Business
operations, HR management, organizational governance, quality management, financial
management, information management, patient care systems, risk management
A voluntary system of standards that practitioners meet to demonstrate accomplishment or ability
in their profession - CORRECT ANSWER Certification
Medical practice and the healthcare system both are built on the foundation of the ________ -
CORRECT ANSWER Physician-patient relationship
The ______ accounts for the most healthcare system costs - CORRECT
ANSWER Physician's pen
How an individual acts, especially toward others - CORRECT ANSWER Behavior
T/F: Medicine, whether directly or indirectly influences every aspect of human life - CORRECT
ANSWER True
Aristotle lives ans says the body is made up of 4 humors or liquids - CORRECT
ANSWER 384-322 BC
Andreas Vesalius publishes The Fabric of the Human Body - CORRECT ANSWER 1543
Edward Jenner invents vaccination against smallpox - CORRECT ANSWER 1796
Chloroform is used as an anesthetic by James Simpson - CORRECT ANSWER 1847
American Association of Medical Colleges is founded - CORRECT ANSWER 1876
, Louis Pasteur invents a vaccine for chicken pox - CORRECT ANSWER 1880
The Abraham Flexner report on medical education is published - CORRECT ANSWER 1910
Medicare and Medicaid are passed into law - CORRECT ANSWER 1965
The HMO Act is passed - CORRECT ANSWER 1973
President Bush signs the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, enacting a physician payment
schedule based on a resource-based relative value scale - CORRECT ANSWER 1989
HIPAA is passed when? - CORRECT ANSWER 1996
The Triple Aim is introduced by IOM - CORRECT ANSWER 2008
A system for keeping score in business, using dollars - CORRECT ANSWER Accounting
Recent years have seen more medical practices embedded in _____ - CORRECT
ANSWER Large HCOs
A medical practice consisting of two or more practitioners working in a common management
and administrative structure - CORRECT ANSWER Group practice
Groups that focus on one aspect of medicine, such as general surgery, family practice,
cardiology, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER Single-specialty
Medical groups that contain more than one medical specialty in the organization and are highly
integrated, with a common governance leadership, and common management structure, and they
