What Is the First Thing the Medical Assistant Should Do

question 62

Multiple Choice

What is the first thing the medical assistant should do when a check is returned unpaid by the bank?

• A) Contact the person who wrote the check.
• B) File it with the district attorney's office.
• C) Send a letter refusing to see the person as a patient until the matter is resolved.
• D) Write off the account.

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Definitions:

Alternative Splicing

A genetic mechanism in which exons are spliced in different ways to produce different mRNAs from a single gene.

Eukaryotic DNA

The genetic material within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, organized into chromosomes, coding for the cell's structure and function.

Introns

Non-coding sections of DNA within a gene that are removed via RNA splicing during the process of transcription.

Exons

Segments of DNA or RNA that encode portions of the final mature RNA product after splicing has removed introns.