CPHRM
Actuary - Answer ✔✔a person who uses statistics to compute loss probabilities to
establish premiums for insurance companies and self-insurance trusts.
Advance directive - Answer ✔✔lawful written instruction that describes an
individual's preferences for health care should he or she become unable to express
them later. Examples+ living wills, power of attorney for health care, advance
health care directive.
Adverse event - Answer ✔✔any injury (undesirable clinical outcome anticipated
or not anticipated) caused by medical care and not an underlying disease process.
Adverse outcome - Answer ✔✔a clinical outcome that, while neither desirable nor
necessarily anticipated, may still have been a known possibility associated with the
treatment or procedure.
,Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. Section 621 et seq) - Answer
✔✔federal statutes prohibiting certain types of employment discrimination on the
basis of age.
Alternative dispute resolution - Answer ✔✔a process or system to resolve disputes
outside the formal judicial process. (A) Negotiation - a voluntary, usually informal,
unstructured process. There is no third-party facilitator, but parties may be
represented by legal counsel. (B) Mediation - a process in which a neutral third
party helps the parties reach a mutually-acceptable agreement.
Arbitration - Answer ✔✔the hearing and determination of a case in question by an
individual or group of individuals either chosen by the opposing parties or by a
person appointed under statutory authority. (A) Binding - an agreement that is final
and not appealable. (B) Non-Binding - an agreement is not final until it is entered
by the court into the record allowing the party to continue the civil litigation
process.
Americans with Disabilities Act (42 USC §§ 12101 et seq) - Answer ✔✔1990
federal statute aimed at prohibiting discrimination against individuals with certain
mental and physical disabilities in the areas of employment and public
accommodation.
Answer - Answer ✔✔a document filed with the court in response to a complaint or
petition. The answer deadline is defined by the state or federal court with
,jurisdiction. Generally the answer must+ 1.) admit that the plaintiffs' allegations
are true, 2.) deny that the plaintiffs' allegations are true or 3.) state that the
defendant does not have information regarding the truth or falsity of the
allegations.
Anti-kickback statutes - Answer ✔✔Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute
(42 USC §1320a-7b) knowingly and willfully seeking or receiving a bribe, rebate
or kickback for a referral for a program, reimbursable item or service.
Appeal - Answer ✔✔an action that is taken after the trial or after a dispositive
motion has been entered in a matter. An appeal may be taken for the purpose of
correcting an error made by the trial court or to obtain a new trial or resort to a
higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a
reversal of the lower court's judgment or granting of a new trial.
Assault - Answer ✔✔an intentional act that is designed to make the victim fearful
and that produces reasonable apprehension of harm.
Assignment - Answer ✔✔act of transferring to another all or part of one's
property, interest or rights.
"At will" employment - Answer ✔✔employment that can be terminated at any
time by either party (employee or employer), for any reason or no reason.
, Attorney-client privilege - Answer ✔✔a legal doctrine recognized by both
common and statutory law protecting certain confidential communications between
an attorney and his or her client from discovery in a legal proceeding unless the
privilege is waived by the client.
Attorney work-product privilege - Answer ✔✔a legal doctrine recognized by both
common and statutory law protecting items, such as documents generated, theories
devised and legal strategies formulated by an attorney on behalf of a client, from
discovery in a legal proceeding unless the privilege is waived by the client.
Battery - Answer ✔✔in tort law, the intentional causation of harmful or offensive
contact with an individual's person without that individual's consent.
Becomes aware - Answer ✔✔a facility becomes aware of an event when the
clinical personnel employed or affiliated with a user's facility learn of a potentially
reportable event.
Belmont report - Answer ✔✔statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines
for addressing and resolving ethical problems that surround the conduct of research
with human subjects.
Actuary - Answer ✔✔a person who uses statistics to compute loss probabilities to
establish premiums for insurance companies and self-insurance trusts.
Advance directive - Answer ✔✔lawful written instruction that describes an
individual's preferences for health care should he or she become unable to express
them later. Examples+ living wills, power of attorney for health care, advance
health care directive.
Adverse event - Answer ✔✔any injury (undesirable clinical outcome anticipated
or not anticipated) caused by medical care and not an underlying disease process.
Adverse outcome - Answer ✔✔a clinical outcome that, while neither desirable nor
necessarily anticipated, may still have been a known possibility associated with the
treatment or procedure.
,Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. Section 621 et seq) - Answer
✔✔federal statutes prohibiting certain types of employment discrimination on the
basis of age.
Alternative dispute resolution - Answer ✔✔a process or system to resolve disputes
outside the formal judicial process. (A) Negotiation - a voluntary, usually informal,
unstructured process. There is no third-party facilitator, but parties may be
represented by legal counsel. (B) Mediation - a process in which a neutral third
party helps the parties reach a mutually-acceptable agreement.
Arbitration - Answer ✔✔the hearing and determination of a case in question by an
individual or group of individuals either chosen by the opposing parties or by a
person appointed under statutory authority. (A) Binding - an agreement that is final
and not appealable. (B) Non-Binding - an agreement is not final until it is entered
by the court into the record allowing the party to continue the civil litigation
process.
Americans with Disabilities Act (42 USC §§ 12101 et seq) - Answer ✔✔1990
federal statute aimed at prohibiting discrimination against individuals with certain
mental and physical disabilities in the areas of employment and public
accommodation.
Answer - Answer ✔✔a document filed with the court in response to a complaint or
petition. The answer deadline is defined by the state or federal court with
,jurisdiction. Generally the answer must+ 1.) admit that the plaintiffs' allegations
are true, 2.) deny that the plaintiffs' allegations are true or 3.) state that the
defendant does not have information regarding the truth or falsity of the
allegations.
Anti-kickback statutes - Answer ✔✔Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute
(42 USC §1320a-7b) knowingly and willfully seeking or receiving a bribe, rebate
or kickback for a referral for a program, reimbursable item or service.
Appeal - Answer ✔✔an action that is taken after the trial or after a dispositive
motion has been entered in a matter. An appeal may be taken for the purpose of
correcting an error made by the trial court or to obtain a new trial or resort to a
higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a
reversal of the lower court's judgment or granting of a new trial.
Assault - Answer ✔✔an intentional act that is designed to make the victim fearful
and that produces reasonable apprehension of harm.
Assignment - Answer ✔✔act of transferring to another all or part of one's
property, interest or rights.
"At will" employment - Answer ✔✔employment that can be terminated at any
time by either party (employee or employer), for any reason or no reason.
, Attorney-client privilege - Answer ✔✔a legal doctrine recognized by both
common and statutory law protecting certain confidential communications between
an attorney and his or her client from discovery in a legal proceeding unless the
privilege is waived by the client.
Attorney work-product privilege - Answer ✔✔a legal doctrine recognized by both
common and statutory law protecting items, such as documents generated, theories
devised and legal strategies formulated by an attorney on behalf of a client, from
discovery in a legal proceeding unless the privilege is waived by the client.
Battery - Answer ✔✔in tort law, the intentional causation of harmful or offensive
contact with an individual's person without that individual's consent.
Becomes aware - Answer ✔✔a facility becomes aware of an event when the
clinical personnel employed or affiliated with a user's facility learn of a potentially
reportable event.
Belmont report - Answer ✔✔statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines
for addressing and resolving ethical problems that surround the conduct of research
with human subjects.
