Exam 8: Health Information Management Issues in Other Care Settings

The term ambulatory care refers to a wide range of preventive and therapeutic services provided at a variety of facilities. Therefore, which of the following terms apply specifically to ambulatory care?

Describe the experiences of a patient in a physician's office. What professionals are the patient likely to encounter? What role do those professionals play in caring for the patient?

A patient who visited a clinic saw two physicians and had an x-ray and a blood test. This patient can be said to have had _____ visits and _____ encounters.

All of the following services may be provided in a physical medicine and rehabilitation facility EXCEPT:

Patients requiring care who are unable to make an appointment with their primary care physicians should visit the:

List and give examples of hospice services covered by Medicare.

The physical location of the specialists who analyze body fluids is the ________.

Data collection in emergency departments:

The unit of measure for the volume of ambulatory care services provided is either an ________ or a ____________.

List at least four types of allied health professionals that commonly provide services in the home health care setting and describe some of the functions that each performs..

Palliative health care service rendered to the terminally ill, their families, and their friends is _________.

The accrediting agency for rehabilitation is the ___________.

Describe the characteristics and limiting factors of ambulatory surgery services.

Describe the characteristics of a physician group practice, including the administrative advantages.

In an open access physician practice, patients do not need:

The minimum data set for emergency services is called __________.

The MDS is one component of a series of data collections called the RAI, which is used in:

The prioritization of patients presenting for treatment in an emergency department is determined by:

The following are types of physician specialties that can be found in a primary care group practice EXCEPT:

Literally, the study of x-rays or radiographs is called ________.