The Patient Chart
This provides subjective data about a patient to assist the provider in arriving at a diagnosis.
What is Health History
What do you call it when the office accepts insurance payments directly from the insurance company?
What is Assignment of Benefits
What is a printer an example of?
What is an output device
What prevents patients in the waiting room from hearing confidential patient information?
What is the sliding window?
This is what you call it when the medical assistant determines which calls go through to the physician
What is Screening?
This is the physician's interpretation of the patient's condition as recorded in the POR progress notes.
What is the Assessment
Under a managed care plan, what is the fixed amount of money that a patient is required to pay each time he or she receives treatment?
What is a Co-pay
What do you call the device that blocks the computer screen image to anyone not directly in front of it?
What is a privacy filter?
When making a computer password, what should you use?
What is Random series of letters and digits?
This is the first thing you do when you answer the phone.
What is Identify the practice and who you are.
This is the name for a review of the health status of blood relatives.
What is Family History
How does the medical assistant verify that a patents insurance will cover a procedure done in the office?
What is Call the Insurance Carrier
This protects a computer network from unauthorized access
What is a firewall?
This is what you consider a patient who has been seen in the past 3 years.
What is an established patient?
This is what an answering service does when used by a medical office.
What is answer calls when the office is closed.
The purpose of these are to update the medical record with new information.
What are progress notes?
Which codes are necessary when submitting insurance claims?
What are diagnoses and procedure codes?
This type of printer prints at a faster speed
What is a laser printer
You should provide two to four of these per provider.
What are waiting room chairs.
What device adds computer capabilities to a telephone?
What is a Smartphone
This is a systematic review of each body system
What is Review of Systems (ROS)?
This must be given to patients if you suspect that Medicare may not pay for a provided service.
What is Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice?
This is used to access the World Wide Web
What is a Web browser
These should be kept in a locked drawer within a locked cabinet seperate from other items.
What are controlled substances?
You need to keep this in mind when placing long distance calls to another state.
What are Time Zones?