VERIFIED ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE .
ACA - Correct Answer -Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
ACO - Correct Answer -Accountable Care Organization
AHCCCS - Correct Answer -Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Certification - Correct Answer -Evidence that an individual has mastered fundamental competencies
in a technical specialty
CLIA '88 - Correct Answer -Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
Communication barriers - Correct Answer -Biases that are major obstructions to verbal
communications
CMS - Correct Answer -Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CPT - Correct Answer -Current procedural terminology codes
Case manager - Correct Answer -Experienced HC professional who serves as the patient's advocate
and adviser
Exsanguinate - Correct Answer -Remove or drain all blood
HIPAA - Correct Answer -Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HMOs - Correct Answer -Health maintenance organizations
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, ICD-10-PCS - Correct Answer -International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision
IDN - Correct Answer -Integrated delivery network
Kinesic slip - Correct Answer -Verbal and nonverbal messages do not match
Kinesics - Correct Answer -Study of nonverbal communcation
MCO - Correct Answer -Managed care organization
Medicaid - Correct Answer -Federal and state program that provides medical assistance for eligible
low-income Americans
Medicare - Correct Answer -Federally funded program that provides health care to seniors, 65 and
older
MLS - Correct Answer -Medical Laboratory Scientist
PCP - Correct Answer -Primary Care Physician
PHI - Correct Answer -Protected health information
PHS - Correct Answer -Promotes and administers programs for public health
Phlebotomy - Correct Answer -More recent term meaning venesection
Polycythemia - Correct Answer -Disorder involving overproduction of red blood cells
PM - Correct Answer -Personalized medicine
Primary care - Correct Answer -Care by physician who assumes ongoing responsibility for
maintaining a patient's health
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