Maryland jurisprudence exam Chiro
Fee Splitting - correct answer-The practice of sharing fees with colleagues, especially for
making referrals
Stark Law - correct answer-Prohibits physicians or their family members who own health
care facilities from referring patients to those entities if the federal government, under
Medicare or Medicaid, will pay for treatment.
Fiduciary Duty - correct answer-That duty owed by an agent to act in the highest good faith
toward the principal and not to obtain any advantage over the latter by the slightest
misrepresentation, concealment, duress or pressure.
"Do the best for the patient"
Legal answer - correct answer-a response a defendant files to a plaintiff's complaint. Admit,
deny, or raise affirmative defenses, counter-claims
deposition - correct answer-the testimony of a witness made under oath but not in open
court
How is the doctor-patient relationship usually established? - correct answer-by affirmative
action:
Examining, diagnosing, providing treatment/recommendations.
Exceptions for independant medical examiners
abandonment - correct answer-Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the
patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
Fully informed consent - correct answer-gives information to the patient involving their
diagnosis, plan of management, prognosis.
PARQ
Procedures, alternatives, risks, questions
costs
right to revoke consent at anytime
Maryland scope of practice: Chiro - correct answer-(1) "Practice chiropractic" means to use a
drugless system of health care based on the principle that interference with the transmission
of nerve impulses may cause disease.
(2) "Practice chiropractic" includes the diagnosing and locating of misaligned or displaced
vertebrae and, through the manual manipulation and adjustment of the spine and other
skeletal structures, treating disorders of the human body.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this title, "practice chiropractic" does not include the use
of drugs or surgery, or the practice of osteopathy, obstetrics, or any other branch of
medicine.
(4) The definition of "practice chiropractic" does not prohibit a chiropractor from selecting diet
and hygiene measures for an individual.
Fee Splitting - correct answer-The practice of sharing fees with colleagues, especially for
making referrals
Stark Law - correct answer-Prohibits physicians or their family members who own health
care facilities from referring patients to those entities if the federal government, under
Medicare or Medicaid, will pay for treatment.
Fiduciary Duty - correct answer-That duty owed by an agent to act in the highest good faith
toward the principal and not to obtain any advantage over the latter by the slightest
misrepresentation, concealment, duress or pressure.
"Do the best for the patient"
Legal answer - correct answer-a response a defendant files to a plaintiff's complaint. Admit,
deny, or raise affirmative defenses, counter-claims
deposition - correct answer-the testimony of a witness made under oath but not in open
court
How is the doctor-patient relationship usually established? - correct answer-by affirmative
action:
Examining, diagnosing, providing treatment/recommendations.
Exceptions for independant medical examiners
abandonment - correct answer-Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the
patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
Fully informed consent - correct answer-gives information to the patient involving their
diagnosis, plan of management, prognosis.
PARQ
Procedures, alternatives, risks, questions
costs
right to revoke consent at anytime
Maryland scope of practice: Chiro - correct answer-(1) "Practice chiropractic" means to use a
drugless system of health care based on the principle that interference with the transmission
of nerve impulses may cause disease.
(2) "Practice chiropractic" includes the diagnosing and locating of misaligned or displaced
vertebrae and, through the manual manipulation and adjustment of the spine and other
skeletal structures, treating disorders of the human body.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this title, "practice chiropractic" does not include the use
of drugs or surgery, or the practice of osteopathy, obstetrics, or any other branch of
medicine.
(4) The definition of "practice chiropractic" does not prohibit a chiropractor from selecting diet
and hygiene measures for an individual.
