Find Out if You Aced August's CMS OIT Acronyms Quiz

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CMS Acronym Quiz

1. What does the acronym ACO-OS stand for?
   1. Accountable Care Organization – Operational System
   2. Accountable Care Organization – Overall Structure
   3. Affordable Cost Organization – Optional System
   4. Affordable Cost Organization – Overall System

ANSWER: a. Accountable Care Organization – Operational System

2. What is the acronym for a file that includes requirements for a system, utility, or data cleanup?
   1. BRD (Business Requirements Document)
   2. CCEM (Combined Common/Edits/Enhancements Module)
   3. GPCI (Geographic Practice Cost Index)
   4. HCQIS (Healthcare Quality Improvement System)

ANSWER: a. BRD (Business Requirements Document)

3. What does the acronym FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) mean?
   1. A governing review body that assesses security and privacy concerns for new projects.
   2. Medicare claims processing shared systems in the VDCs that processes practitioner claims.
   3. Centers that distribute public notices when one of the independent agencies of the US government wishes to add, remove, or change a rule or regulation as part of the rulemaking process. 
   4. A designated reimbursement category that includes four health centers: community, migrant, public housing primary care, and homeless.

ANSWER: d. A designated reimbursement category that includes four health centers: community, migrant, public housing primary care, and homeless.

4. What does OSRE stand for?
   1. Office and Site Reliability Engineering
   2. Operations and Site Reliability Engineering
   3. Outpatient and Structure Reliability Energy
   4. Office and Structure Reliability Energy

ANSWER: b. Operations and Site Reliability Engineering

5. What is the meaning of API (Application Programming Interface)?
   1. A step in the adjudication of a claim.
   2. The codes used to determine the 112 localities used in the physician fee schedule.
   3. A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, and it also serves a library that includes specifications for routines, data structures, object classes and variables.
   4. New proposed system that combines three existing quality reporting programs into one that will derive a single quality score. 

ANSWER: c. A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, and it also serves a library that includes specifications for routines, data structures, object classes and variables.