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

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CMS Acronym Quiz

1. What does the acronym ADR stand for?

   1. Average Delivery Price
   2. Additional Documentation Request
   3. Application Delivery Requisite 
   4. Additional Development Request

   ANSWER: b. Additional Documentation Request

2. What is the acronym for a large cloud that hosts a provider?

   1. Amazon Web Services
   2. Business Owner
   3. Change Control Board
   4. Medicare Beneficiary Database

   ANSWER: a. Amazon Web Services

3. What does the acronym MCS (Multi-carrier System) mean?

   1. The inpatient code editor and is used to detect claim errors based on coding listed on UB-04 claims submitted to Medicare. 
   2. The new cloud environment that was created by MPSM.
   3. A number assigned to physicians by MACs when a provider enrolls with Medicare and is sent with the approval letter. 
   4. Medicare claims processing shared systems in the VDCs that processes practitioner claims.

   ANSWER: d. Medicare claims processing shared systems in the VDCs that processes practitioner claims.

4. What does PSF stand for?

   1. Provider Statistical and Final Report
   2. Provider Specific File Record
   3. Prospective Statement of Filings
   4. Prospective Situation File

   ANSWER: b. Provider Specific File Record

5. What is the meaning of REST (Representational State Transfer)?
   1. Verification process to ensure claims have been paid correctly. 
   2. A core aspect of how Medicare will pay for a service provided. 
   3. An architectural style that consists of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements. 
   4. A person who possesses deep knowledge of one specific topic. 

       ANSWER: c. An architectural style that consists of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data      elements.