A contract between several practitioners and an insurer to provide healthcare services for lower-than-average fees is referred to as this.
What is a preferred provider organization (PPO).
100
Form sent to the patient and provider explaining the approval or denial of payment for procedures rendered.
What is an Explanation of Benefits?
100
These methods are used to evaluate the effectiveness of Dental Public Health Programs:
What are face-to-face interviews, surveys, document analysis, focus groups, and observation.
100
Advice and treatment that is based on known methods with predictable results rather than anecdotes. Also considers patient preferences.
What is evidence-based practice?
100
This is the best way to ensure an effective presentation.
What is being prepared.
200
Provides comprehensive health care to enrolled individuals and families in a specified region and receive fixed periodic payments. Routine dental care is not usually a covered benefit.
What is the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO).
200
Federal program that distributes funds to states for health care services provided to certain groups including blind, disabled, those with low incomes, and certain members of families with dependent children.
What is Medicaid?
200
This Periodontal Index will help classify an individual or group quickly and efficiently by evaluating pocket depth and gingival status.
What is What is the CPITN?
(Community Periodontal Index of Treatment Needs)
200
A term for research that employs a body of techniques using observation, reason, and experimentation to gather evidence that is empirical and measurable.
What is the scientific method?
200
"Following the presentation, the audience will be able to compare ten healthy and unhealthy snack choices" is an example of this.
What is an objective?
300
Payment is based on an office visit and is always the same regardless of the services rendered.
What is the Encounter System?
300
This is the amount an individual enrolled in an insurance plan must pay for covered services before the insurance entity begins paying.
What is the deductible?
300
This dental index records the presence or absence of gingival inflammation as determined by bleeding from interproximal gingival sulci.
What is the gingival bleeding index (GBI)?
300
This is a question to be answered by a study. It is the first step when planning a research project.
What is a hypothesis.
300
These include lecture, discussion, demonstration, inquiry, and problem-based learning.
What are teaching strategies?
400
These set fees are the average dentist fee per service in the immediate local region.
What are the UCR fees (Usual, Customary, and Reasonable)
400
This is the MOST appropriate index to use to measure progressive stages of periodontal disease and amount of clinical attachment loss.
What is Russel’s Periodontal Index (PI)?
400
When a valid hypothesis has been stated, the researcher must write a detailed plan for the study called this.
What is a research proposal?
400
This is a broad statement of the final outcome that the instructor expects from the target group upon completion of the presentation.
What are goals?
500
They payment method in which the dental provider contracts with a program to provide all or most dental services to the program's subscribers in return for payment on a per capita basis is called this.
What is Capitation?
500
Five character alpha-numeric code given to a specific procedure as designated in the Codes on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature published by the ADA.
What is a Procedure number?
500
This type of evaluation happens during the program's planning process and is ongoing.
What is formative evaluation?
500
This is the review board charged with reviewing the ethical implications of every research study.
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
500
Advocate, assess, and believe are verbs us that come from this domain.