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What is Power? | The potential to influence others. |
What is authority? | The aspect of power, grante to either groups or indviduals, that legitimizes the right of the group or individual to make decisions on behalf of others |
What is the zone of indifference? | A hypothetical boundary of legitimacy, outside of which requests or orders will be met with mere compliance or refusal |
What is the Honeymoon effect? | The period of time, usually immediately after arrving in a new position, in which persons are more likely to be grante extra authority to make decisions |
What is scientific management? | a collection of management theories developed in the early 1900s whose emphasis is on the strict control of work to maximize production through increases in efficiency |
What is the Hawthorne effect? | Also known as the placebo effect. A phenomenon that occurs when the subjects in an experimental study alterthat behavior simply bc of the process of being studied |
What organization is the oldest and largest health care standards organization in the country? | JCAHO [Joint Commission on Accreditation |
What are allies? | Persons who exhibit a high level of support for a plan. |
Who are opponents? | Persons who support a particular program but dispute the implementation of a plan related to that program |
Who are bedfellows? | Persons who exhibit support for a particular plan but who have a history of trustworthy behavior and vacillation |
Who are adversaries? | Persons who are unsupportive of both a program and a particular plan related to the program |
Medical documentation by an ATC is required to ensure that ______ established by NATA & NATABOC are met | Professional Standards |
Two basic types of records an ATC must learn to differentiate are? | Medical & Program administration |
What is Problem-oriented medical records [POMR]? | A medical record keeping organizes information around the physcially active patient's specific complaints |
What is focus charting? | a medical record that registers a patient's compaint data, the health care practitioner's actions, & the patient's response |
What is FERPA? | Federal Education Records Privacy Act; Government regulation that requires edcuational institutions to receive formal written consent from students before educational records are released to a third party |
An ATC must always follow the rules and regulations established by HIPPA? T or F? | False |
An authorization for release of health info under HIPPA is not valid unless it contains a statement informing a patient that his or her health info could be disclosed by the persons to whom the info is being provided. T or F? | True |
HIPPA defers authority over access to the health records of minors to the individual states. T or F? | True |
Copies of medical records used to document insurance claims should be maintained in the insurance folder of the patient. T or F? | False; The medical records are protected by HIPPA & should have their own folder |
Correspondence with insurance companies and 3rd party payers should be maintained ina separate file from a patient's or athlete's medical records. T or F? | True |
What is a budget? | A plan for the coordination of resources & expenditures. Serves as a tool for estimating receipts & disbursements over a period of time. |
What is a spending-ceiling model budget? | A type of expenditure budgeting that requires justification only for thos expenses that exceed those of the previous budget cycle. also known as the incremental model |
What is a spending-reduction model? | A type of ugeting used during preiods of financial retrenchment that requires reallocation of instiutional funds, resulting in reduced spending levels for some programs |
What is zero-based budgeting? | A model that requires justification for every budget line item without reference to previous spending patterns |
What is fixed budgeting? | a method in which expenditures and revenues are projected on a monthly masis, thereby providing an estimate of cash flow |
What is variable budgeting? | a method requiring adjustment of monthly expenditures so that they do not exceed revenues |
What is lump sum budgeting? | a method that allocates a fixed amount of money for an entire program without specifying how the money will be spent |
What is performance budgeting? | a method that allocates funds for discrete activities |
What are the 6 basic steps in the purchasing process? | request for quotation, negotiation, requisition, purchase order, receiving, accounts payable |
What is a request for quotation [RFQ]? | a document that provides vendors with the specifications for bidding on the sale of goods and services |
What is bidding? | a process whereby vendors provide cost quotations for goods and sevices they wish to sell |
What are negotiations? | the process of bargaining & are an important part of the purchasing process |
What is capital equipment? | Expense of durable equipment that often makes up the bulk of the rehabilitation & therapeutic modality inventory. Purchases are infrequent & costly |
What are medium-priced annual rebuys? | Purchases of services that require annual renegotiation [i.e: salaries, physician consulting fees ambulance services, etc] |
what are lower-cost consumable supplies? | constitute the bulk of the supply budget. [i.e: tape, pre-wrap, meds, etc.] |
Why Document? | Legal protection, Memory Aid, Legal requirements, professional standards |
What is charting by exception? | A type of medical record that notes only those patient responses that vary from predefined norms |
What is narrative charting? | a method of recording the details of a patient's assessments and treatments using a detailed, prosebased format |
What is athletic accident insurance? | a type of insurance policy intended to reimburse medical vendors for the expenses associated with acute athletic accidnets |
What are exclusions from insurance? | situations or circumstances specifically not covered by an insurance policy. |
what is a rider? | Additions to a standard insurance policy that provide coverage for conditions that are normally not covered |
What is an insurance premium? | the invoiced cost of an insurance policy? |
What is catastrophic insurance? | a type of accident insurance designed to provide lifelong medical, rehabilitation, & disablility benefits for the victims of devastating injury |
What is disablity insurance? | insurance designed to protect an athlete against future loss of eaning because of disabling injury or sickness |
What is primary coverage? | a type of health, medical, or accident insurance that begins to pay for covered expenses immediately after a deductible has been paid |
What is secondary coverage | a type of health, medical, or accident insurance that begins to pay for covered expenses only after all other sources of insurance coverage has been exhasted. Also known as excess insurance |
What is Malfeasance? | The commission of an act that is unequivocally illegal or completely wrongful. |
What is misfeasance? | an act that is legal but performed improperly |
What is Nonfeasance? | The intentional failure to perform a required duty or obligation. |
What is breach of duty? | Failure to satisfy ethical, legal, or moral obligations, specially where someone has a corresponding right to demand the satisfaction. |
What is tort? | A negligent or intentional civil wrong not arising out of a contract or statute |
What are the 6 steps in the ordering process? | RFQ, Negotiation, Requisition, Purchase order, receiving, accounts payable |
What is requisition? | simply a written request to expend institutional funds for needed resources. Submitted to the institution/place of work. Can be either formal or informal. |