Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Conventional indemnity health insurance plans, whereby an insured individual pays for services and is later reimbursed by the insurer, were the most common type of health insurance coverage in 2018.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: False
Question: Efforts to control the costs of Medicare have been undertaken via legislation mandated to create prospective payment systems for:
Answer Options:
A. physicians using RBRVS.
\nB. skilled nursing facilities using DRGs.
\nC. hospitals using RUGs.
\nD. hospital outpatient department services using HHRGs.
Answer: A. physicians using RBRVS.
Question: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes provisions for which of the following?
Answer Options:
A. improving quality.
\nB. Expanding Medicaid.
\nC. Providing access to health care for all Americans.
\nD. All of these are correct.
Answer: D. All of these are correct.
Question: The largest private insurance carrier in the U.S. is Medicare.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: False
Question: True or False? Cost allocation is necessary to ensure that patients are only paying for the services they are using.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Most news media in the United States are:
Answer Options:
A. private, for-profit corporations.
\nB. dependent on their newspapers’ sales to make a profit.
\nC. public and government subsidized.
\nD. small and independently owned.
\nE. None of the above.
Answer: A. private, for-profit corporations.
Question: Information on an organization’s core capabilities is relatively easy to obtain.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: False
Question: True or False? CMS stands for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Variable costs consist of all the following, except:
Answer Options:
A. medication
\nB. hourly employees
\nC. salary employees
\nD. supplies
Answer: C. salary employees
Question: Not-for-profit health care organizations generally may not influence legislation or partake in political campaigns.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: True or False? A for-profit health care organization may participate in political campaigns and influence legislation.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True