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What Do HMO's include?
- Urgent Care Clinics
- Outpatient Surgical Centers
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What are the advantages of belonging to an HMO include?
Besides your monthly premium, the only fee you pay is a small co-payment at the time service is rendered to you. ($15.00-$25.00 for a doctor visit, $50.00 for an Er visit or an ambulance pick-up.
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What are the disadvantages to belonging to an HMO?
- HMO network
- High premium rates
- Controls physician's care
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What is Medicare?
- A U.S. federally funded insurance program
- For older Patients that have retired (65 & Older)
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What are the 4 Plans of Medicare?
- Part A: Hospital Coverage
- Part B: Medicare Insurance
- Part C: Medicare Advantage Plans
- Part D: Prescription Drug Plans
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What is Medicaid?
- A Federal and State Funded Insurance Program
- The States are responsible for who is a eligibility group
- Ex. Include Age, income and resources, and disability
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What are some Health Care Facilities?
- Public: hospitals and healthcare facilities are operated by federal or local governments.
- Private: Owned by specific organizations like VA's only their families and certain group of people can use these.
- Not-For-Profit: These are run by the county
- Proprietary: Owned and runned for profit, strictly for money
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What is a Mission Statement?
- The basic philosophy and primary goals of a particular facility.
- Some mission statements are run by relegions
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What are a list of different types of Physicians?
- MD: Doctor of Medicine
- Doctor Of Osteopathy (DO): Use more natural forms of healing and some use of medicine
- Referring physician: Refer to other doctors, facilities, or specialized doctors for treatment
- Attending physician: Tend to the needs of the patient for a specific reason
- Intern: Medical Student who has graduated and gaining practice
- Fellows: Getting advanced training in a specialized area
- Specialist: Specialized in one area
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What are Diagnostic Services?
- Health care workers in diagnostic service areas perform tests or evaluations that aid the physician in determining the presence or absence of a disease or condition.
- X ray falls under this
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What are Therapeutic Services?
- Therapists provide services designed to help patients overcome some form of physical or psychological disability
- Radiation Therapist would fall under this
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What is a list of General Services?
- Admitting
- Emergency
- Nursing
- Social Services
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What are some Support Services?
- Laundry
- Housekeeping
- Personnel
- Purchasing
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What is a Professional?
- Someone Engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work.
- A person having impressive competence in a particular are
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What do professional Societies do?
- Publish professional journals
- conduct educational meetings
- represent their members to the gov.
- provide containing ed verification
- offer scholarships
- Information networking
- Recruitment
- Promotional materials
- Malpractice and hospitilization Insurance
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What is the ASRT?
- The most prominent national professional society voice for radiologic technologists.
- More than 150,000 members throughout the U.S. and overseas
- Developed the document called The Practice Standards for medical imaging and radiation therapy
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What is some Radiography Practice Standards?
- Scope of practice
- clinical performance standards
- Quality performance standards
- Professional performance standards
- advisory opinion statements
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What are some Educational Programs in Radiography?
- Hospitals (JRCERT have pretty much ruled out hospital programs)
- Community Colleges
- Universities
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What are Credentials?
- Once an individual has passed the appropriate examination, he or she is listed in the registry and granted the right to use the appropriate professional title
- Ex. RT (R) Registered Technologist
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What is ARRT?
- The American Registry Of Radilogic Technologist
- Encourages the study and elevates the standards of radilogic technology
- Examine and certify eligible candidates
- Periodically publish a list of registrants
- (They work closely with ASRT)
- Help write Registry exam
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How much is the fee for an individual to pay to maintain active status with the ARRT and must adhere to the ARRT Code Of Ethics?
25 $ a year
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The ARRT registrants must also certify that they have how many attended hours of continuing education during the previous 2 years to maintain their registration status?
24 hours
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Describe Licensure.
A process by which a govermental agency (usually a state) grants permission to individuals to practice their profession.
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What is a Limited Permit?
- A person that is allowed to practice radiography under limited circumstances.
- Ex. Nurse or lab tech that do alot of feet x rays are only allowed to do a limited amount of feet x rays
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What are the OPPORTUNITIES in radilogic Technology?
Radiographers perform diagnostic x ray procedures, administer contrast media, and aid the radiologist
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What are the requirments for becoming a Radiographer?
- Must complete an acdreditied radiography program
- Must pass the national exam in radiography offered by the ARRT
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What is Mammography? (M)
- Radilogic examination of the breast
- Mammography is a useful diagnostic tool for early detection of breast disease.
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What is Computed Tomography? (CT)
Radilogic examination of a pre-determined plane in the body. It is processed by a computer for display
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What is Nuclear Medicine? (N)
Procedures that usually involve the imaging of a patients organs, such as the liver, heart, or brain after the introduction of a radioactive material known as a radiopharmaceutical
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What is Cardio-Interventional Technology? (CI)
Involves the injection of a iodinated contrast media for diagnosing, diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
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What is Radiation Therapy? (T)
The use of high energy ionizing radiation to treat primarily malignant tumors
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What is Diagnostic Medical Sonography? (S)
The visualization of structures of the body by recording the reflections of pulses of high-frequency sound waves directed into the tissue
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What is Magnetic Reasonance Imaging? (MR)
MRI uses a strong magnetic field and radiowaves along with a computer to generate sectional images of patient anatomy.
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What all do the Administration Do?
- Supervisory positions in radiography CT, MR, CV, RDMS, QM
- Radiology manager supervises everyone in the imaging department
- chief radiographer or lead tech schedules tasks, manages day-to-day activities and orders supplies
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What is a Medical Dosimetrists?
Determines how much radiation will be delivered to a tumor site
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Describe the Employment Outlook for radiographers.
- The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
- Economic Recession of 2008
- Latest prediction indicates only approximately 4600 more imaging jobs will be added by 2018.
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What is Accreditaion?
A voluntary peer process through which an agency grants recognition to an institution for a program of study that meets specific criteria
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What is TJC?
The Joint Commission- Hospitals and healthcare facilities seek accreditation through TJC.
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What Is JRCERT?
- The Joint Review Commitee on Education in Radiologic Technology
- They grant educational instituations accreditation
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