624-628 Flashcards
What patients should be identified on the AF Form 1488, Daily Log of Patients Treated for Injuries?
All beneficiaries who seek care at an MTF for an injury, or in some cases a disease.
SrA Smith was treated by a physician in the emergency room after receiving a fractured tibia sustained in an automobile accident. After the treatment, he went home but returned later in the evening due to unbearable pain. How many entries on the AF Form 1488 should be annotated in regards to SrA Smith’s visits? Explain.
Two. Patients are identified on the log regardless of the number of visits for the same injury.
What is the objective of the MCRP?
They review the log and determine if the Air Force legal office can pursue a claim for Air Force members. If a member from another service has a potential claim, forward the information to the parent service (e.g., Army, Navy). The legal office and MCRP, for each service, works those claims depending on the service affiliation with the patient.
How often should a new AF Form 1488 be completed?
Daily.
Who determines if a patient encounter falls under the realm of the medical affirmative claims case?
The base legal office.
How often must the medical facility conduct a review to reconcile the status of all ongoing medical affirmative claims cases?
Quarterly.
What form must be completed by the MAC program manager when the MCRP office POC identifies a case that is a potential medical affirmative claims case?
AF Form 438, Medical Care–Third Party Liability Notification.
How long does the MAC clerk have to submit this form to the MCRP office?
5 days.
Who receives a copy of the completed quarterly reconciliation?
AFMOA/SGAR.
Who works with the data quality assurance team and presents the results of the completed monthly DQMC review list to the executive committee?
MTF DQ manager.
Who establishes or tasks an existing structure to monitor financial and clinical workload data quality assurance and management controls?
The MTF commander.
What is required for the commander to complete their DQ statement?
The DQMC Review List.
At what level are DQMC review lists maintained?
The facility level.
What three types of MTF data does the MEPRS accounting system capture?
Personnel utilization, workload, and expense.
What four benefits can leaders within the AFMS reap with properly reported MEPRS data?
Cost awareness, cost effectiveness, cost comparisons, and manpower or personnel utilization.
