Regulation & Coding
Texas agency that gives legal authority to practice as an athletic trainer in Texas.
What is Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)?
Unique 10‑digit identifier used in billing so systems can consistently recognize you as the provider.
What is an NPI number?
Degree to which people can get, process, and understand health information to make decisions.
What is health literacy?
Speaking slowly, using common words, and avoiding medical jargon are examples of this style.
What is plain‑language communication?
Measures completed directly by the patient about their own symptoms and function.
What are Patient-Rated Outcomes?
Pain, swelling, and damaged ligaments fit in this part of the ICF.
What are body functions and structures?
Income, employment, poverty, and financial security are all part of this major SDOH area.
What is economic stability?
National organization that awards and maintains the ATC credential.
What is the Board of Certification?
Written agreement that clarifies roles and responsibilities between a school and a clinic.
What is an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)?
Older adults and people with low education are examples of groups at higher risk for this.
What is limited health understanding?
Using short sentences, headings, and bullet points in handouts improves this aspect of Parnell's Literacy model.
What is written communication?
Measures like ROM, MMT, swelling, and special tests completed by the clinician.
What are clinician‑rated outcomes?
Being unable to play sport or work a job shows limitation in this ICF area.
What is participation?
Insurance coverage, availability of providers, and the quality of services belong in this SDOH domain.
What is health care access and quality?
Written, pre‑authorized directions from a physician telling the AT what they can do without a new order.
What are standing orders?
Commonly listed domain that includes treatment, rehab, reconditioning, and return‑to‑play decisions.
What is therapeutic intervention?
Way of looking at a patient that considers body problems, what they can do, and how the injury affects school, work, or sport.
What is the ICF model view?
Making it easier to find rooms, check‑in desks, and exits with signs and directions improves this communication domain.
What is the environmental communication domain?
Type of outcome tool used across many conditions but often less sensitive to small specific changes.
What is a generic PRO?
Difficulty walking, cutting, or climbing stairs is a problem in this ICF area.
What are activities?
Housing, safety, pollution, transportation, and food access are examples from this SDOH area.
What is the neighborhood and built environment?
Diagnosis codes that explain why the patient is being treated.
What are ICD‑10 (International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision) codes?
Commonly listed domain that emphasizes examining injuries, forming a clinical impression, and naming the problem.
What is assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis?
Strategy where you ask the patient to explain back, in their own words, what they will do.
What is teach‑back?
Asking, “What questions do you have?” is better than yes/no questioning because it does this.
What is inviting questions/ Open-ended questions?
Type of outcome tool designed for one body region or condition, like the knee or shoulder.
What is a region-specific PRO?
Family support, access to rehab, and job demands are examples of this contextual side of the ICF.
What are environmental factors?
English proficiency, cultural norms, structural racism, area deprivation, and rural vs urban location are grouped together under these broad SDOH conditions.
What are language, cultural, and structural factors?
Procedure and service codes that describe what you actually did in the visit.
What are CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes?
These are the 5 Domains of an Athletic Trainer.
What is risk reduction, wellness and health literacy, assessment, evaluation and diagnosis, critical incident management, therapeutic intervention, and healthcare administration and professional responsibility?
Approach where you assume every patient may have trouble understanding, so you always use plain language and clear tools.
What is the universal precautions approach?
Three communication domains in Parnell’s Tapestry model.
What are oral, written, and environmental?
First step in the PRO model, where the patient completes the form at the evaluation.
What is formal engagement?
Age, motivation, beliefs, and coping style belong to this other contextual side of the ICF.
What are personal factors?
These are the 6 domains of the social determinants of health.
What are economic stability; education access and quality; health care access and quality; neighborhood and built environment; social and community context; and language, cultural, and broader structural factors?