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What are laws?
Obligatory societal rules
Ethical issues include:
right to refuse immunization
Bioethical issues include:
relate to biomedical technology and its practices
What factors influence law, ethics, and bioethics?
all of the above
Ethics is/are
different in every culture
What are economics of health care?
is, in part, driven by medical technology
Ethical and bioethical standards can be _______, _______, _______, and _______.
personal, organizational, institutional, worldwide
The three Codes of Ethics that apply to worldwide issues are ______, _______,
and ________.
Geneva Convention Code, Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki
Who dictates the ethics for an individual health-care employee?
The health-care workers themselves
What can influence the ethics of a health-care worker?
Culture of the worker
A provider who receives all the profits and takes all the risks is practicing in what
setting?
sole proprietorship
What are advantages of a partnership?
A and C
Why employees might choose to work in a group practice?
there are opportunities for advancement
What is an example of payment for medical services?
co-payment
deductible
capitation
pay for performance (P4P)
opt-out option
What must providers who practice in any integrated organization remember?
B and C
What is a type of managed care that reimburses providers for their progress
towards a fixed goal?
P4P
This health plan is one of the largest, not-for-profit HMOs in the country:
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
, A HMO makes use of the concept of a primary care provider (PCP) as a method of
controlling costs. This PCP is known as a:
gatekeeper
What setting does the medical assistant work in the most?
Clinical and Administrative
What are the credentials for medical assistants?
Certified Medical Assistants and Registered Medical Assistants
What is the job of a professional coders?
correctly apply codes to procedures, supplies, and so forth, for billing purposes
What does state statutes determine?
all of the above are true
What allied health professionals are specifically trained to work in the ambulatory
setting?
MA
The National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) is administered to
graduates to become:
a RN
What permits an MA to give injections?
Scope of practice
Legally, all health-care professionals must follow the rules of?
the state in which they are employed
State regulations regarding health-care professionals vary from state-to-state.
These state regulations are outlined in the:
medical practice acts
The two agencies that credential medical assistants are the American Association
of Medical Assistants and the:
American Medical Technologists Association
Physicians who administer, prescribe, or dispense controlled substances are
required to register with who?
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Once granted, the authority to revoke or suspend a medical license rests with
the:
state medical board that granted the license
Substance abuse refers only to
all of the above
To dispense a drug means to
deliver a drug in a container to a client
The Controlled Substances Act sorts controlled drugs into how many schedules?
Five (5)
Which of the following is a reason for revoking a physician's license?
Betrayal of professional confidentiality
Medical practice acts are:
state statutes
What is negligence?
Failure to do an act that a reasonable and prudent health-care professional would do
Medical Malpractice