1.
Honesty and integrity are two traits required of the ambulatory health care professional
2.
Ethics are sometimes defined as morals, values, and codes of behavior.
3.
Co-payment” is the expense providers pay for insurance participation.
4.
“Opt-out option” allows members to seek treatment outside their health care plan.
5.
Registration, the strongest form of regulation, is a credential granted by state statutes to perform specific acts.
6.
The nurse practitioner (NP) is a practical nurse who has successfully completed additional education and training.
7.
Probate court simplifies and expedites the handling of small claims or debts.
8.
An expert witness is a special trained person who can testify in a court of law as to what the professional standard of care is in the same or similar communities.
9.
Implied contracts are the most common form of contracts occurring in ambulatory health care.
10.
Physicians must keep clients' medical information confidential and physicians have the right to privacy.
11.
Ethical and bioethical standards can be ______________, ______________, _______________, and ______________________.
A. 
Personal, organizational, institutional, worldwide
B. 
Organizational, institutional, linked, ritual
C. 
Personal, organizational, traditional, conventional
D. 
Merged, grouped, blended, linked
12.
The three Codes of Ethics that apply to worldwide issues are ______________, _______________________, and ___________________________.
A. 
Confederate Code, Engagement Code, Ethics of America Healthcare Workers
B. 
Geneva Convention Code, Nuremberg Code, Declaration of Helsinki
C. 
Declaration of Helsinki, AAMA Code of Morals, United Nations Code
D. 
Nuremberg Code, Conduct Code of the Americas, Christopher Columbus Ethical Code
13.
All but one of the following is an example of payment for medical services
A. 
Pay for Performance (P4P)
B. 
C. 
D. 
14.
Physicians who practice in any integrated organization must remember:
A. 
Antitrust laws will not apply to their decision.
B. 
Medicare/Medicaid may not recognize some business arrangements.
C. 
Medicare/Medicaid referrals cannot be made to any entity in which they have financial interest
D. 
15.
Professional coders:
A. 
Determine how physicians will be paid for their services.
B. 
Provide doctors personal identification codes for their business accounts.
C. 
Correctly apply codes to procedures, supplies, etc., for billing purposes.
D. 
Are not certified, registered, or licensed.
16.
State statues may determine:
A. 
Scope of practice for any and all health professionals.
B. 
Will vary from state to state.
C. 
Punishment for failure to comply.
D. 
17.
Physicians who dispense controlled substances must take inventory on their date of registration and every:
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
18.
To dispense a drug means to:
A. 
Instill a drug into the body of a client.
B. 
Deliver a drug in a container to a client.
C. 
Issue a drug order for a client.
D. 
Call in a prescription for a client.
19.
The purpose of the statute of limitations is to fix:
A. 
A maximum monetary award for clients to collect from physicians guilty of negligence.
B. 
A period of time or a deadline for initiating legal action.
C. 
Limitations on the practice of referrals by physicians.
D. 
Limitations on the number of surgeries physicians can perform.
20.
Respondent superioris a(n):
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
21.
A wrongful act or injury committed by one person against another person independent of a contract is a ________________.
22.
A/an ____________ is a person appointed by a physician to perform authorized acts in the name, and under the control and direction, of the physician.
23.
Identify the legislative branch of the federal government: ___________________
24.
In a civil case, the party bringing the action is called the _________________.
25.
______________________ pays health care providers a fixed monthly fee for a range of services for each HMO member in their care.