Another name for terminating care of a patient is 

A. abandonment.
B. negligence.
C. breach of contract.
D. withdrawing from a case.

D. withdrawing from a case.

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When a claim is received from a hospital for clinic charges, there is often a room charge for the use of the facility and a separate physician charge. Which of the following is considered an appropriate handling procedure for such charges?

a. Always submit the claim to a claims examiner first. b. CPT® services are coded separately and subject to usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) fees. c. If a hospital is billing for professional component charges separately from the actual lab or x-ray charges, make sure to keep them separate. d. If coded separately, the charge for physician treatment charges (professional fees) is not usually subject to UCR.

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An occupational therapy (OT) practitioner is testing a client's wrist flexion strength. The client is able to flex the wrist to 50 degrees against gravity. What should the therapist do next in the as-sessment?

A. Apply resistance. B. Reposition the client to test in the gravity-minimized plane. C. Assist the client into full wrist flexion and then apply resistance. D. Flex the wrist passively to assess available range of motion.

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