This doctrine allows a physician to decide whether to release a patient's medical records or not...
What is the Doctrine of Professional Discretion?
100
Patients who have a preoccupation with disease and illness and often misunderstand their bodily sensations are called...
What is hypochondriacs?
100
The flat rate structure of reimbursement released by Medicare in 1983 is called this...
What is International Classification of Diseases (ICD)?
100
The risk of loss with this type of insurance is the cost of defending a healthcare worker in court...
What is malpractice insurance?
100
_____ capacity is not an element used to determine whether a contract is formed but rather to address the element of consideration...
What is contractual?
200
Any writing that provides information or ideas that can be attributed to the author is called...
What is a legal document?
200
The transfer of an obligation from one party to another, usually in exchange for a fee is called this ...
What is insurance?
200
Using an incorrect ICD or CPT code to gain a larger insurance payment is called this...
What is upcoding?
200
This requires asking whether the parties have thought about what they are giving up when entering into a contract..
What is consideration?
200
All contracts begin with this...
What is an offer?
300
Medical records are dually owned by ...
What is the patient and the healthcare institution?
300
If a patient requests a copy of their medical records, the ____ must approve the request before the chart is copied...
What is the doctor?
300
A person who evaluates insurance risks is known as a...
What is an underwriter?
300
Liability without fault is called this...
What is vicarious liability?
300
_______ are monthly fees paid by the insured to the insurance company...
What are premiums?
400
"Bring with you under penalty of punishment" - requirement that doucments be delivered to a court or brought with you to court is called...
What is supeona duces tecom?
400
This ____ year rule of thumb for retaining and maintaining medical records is based on the Statute of Limitations...
What is the 20-year rule?
400
Out patient procedures are assigned these codes...
What is Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) codes?
400
Taking the offer is called this...
What is acceptance?
400
The essence behind an ________ contract is that if the person were able to do so, they would have agreed to treatment, and therefore entered into a contract for healthcare services...
What is implied?
500
A legal principle related to documenting states this....
What is "If it wasn't written down, it wasn't done"?
500
All of the regulatory agencies that govern healthcare require patient care to be this...
What is documented?
500
A comprehensive list of statistical data used by insurance to determine illness, disease, and accident projections is called...
What is actuarial tables?
500
A legal standard used to determine whether the actions of a party are warranted is called this...
What is the reasonable person standard?
500
A ______ standard is sometimes used in determining negligence.