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CMAA
CMAA VOCAB #1
Question | Answer |
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Cluster Booking or Scheduling | If a group of patients are scheduled to come in to receive the same type of service, the medical assistant should schedule the patients around the same block of time, a method known as |
new patient | Patient has not received care from any of the health care providers of the same specialty within the previous 3 years. |
Established Patient | Patient has received care from one of the health care providers of the same specialty in a medical office within the previous 3 years |
Intra, Inter | between, within |
Triaging | prioritize the patients based on their medical needs. |
Advance Beneficiary Notice | document that Medicare recipients must sign when there is a possibility that Medicare will not pay for a service or procedure. |
Preauthorization - precertification | Admin needs to obtain before a patient can see specialist (granting prior approval for reimbursement of health care service), wil have certification number |
Doctrine of Respondeat superior | Mistakes made by the medical administrative assistant, and other members of the medical staff can result in a lawsuit filed against the physician who owns the medical facility |
Malpractice | professional negligence |
NKDA | No Known Drug Allergies |
A, An | Without, not, lack of |
Ante | before, in front of |
Anti | Against |
Bi | two |
brady | slow |
Dia | through, Complete |
disapart | free from |
dysbad | painful |
End, Endo | within , inner |
EPI | ABOVE, UPON, ON |
EXOUT | AWAY FROM |
HEMI | HALF |
HYPER | EXCESSIVE , ABOVE MORE THEN NORMAL |
HYPO | DEFICIENT, BELOW, LESS THEN NORMAL |
MAL | BAD, ILLNESS |
MICRO | SMALL |
PATHO | DISEASE, SUFFERING |
PERI | SURROUNDING, AROUND |
POST | AFTER, BEHIND |
PRE | BEFORE |
SUB | UNDER, BELOW |
SUPRA | ABOVE, OVER |
TACHY | FAST, SWIFT, RAPID |
TRI | THREE |
AL | PERTAINING TO |
ALGIA | PAIN |
ECTOMY | EXCISION |