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A medical assistant is preparing a prescription for a medical order. The patient is prescribed 20 mg of a medication once a day by mouth for 30 days. The dosage on hand is 10 mg tablets. Which of the following shows how  many tablets the patient should take per day and how many the assistant should order?

Which health insurance plan directly employs or contracts with selected physicians to provide managed health care services in exchange for a fixed, prepaid monthly premium?

Which of the following questions should a medical assistant ask a patient prior to obtaining a blood specimen for a lipid panel?

Which statement about permanent dementia is correct?    

A clinic has just received laboratory results for a patient indicating an error with the sample. Which of the following actions should the medical assistant take first?

How long should serum specimens be allowed to clot prior to centrifugation?

A resident has Alzheimer’s Disease. His wife visits daily. They like to touch, hold hands, and kiss. Which action is correct?

 Ariana’s health insurance policy includes a deductible of $900 and a coinsurance provision requiring her to pay 20 percent of all bills. Her total bill is $11,100. What is Ariana’s total cost?

When storing or organizing vials of vaccines, which of the following actions should the medical assistant take?

The term Speech Awareness Threshold is synonymous with ________.