WGU C425 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Primary care - ✔✔basic and routine services that include prevention, diagnostic, and
therapeutic services, health education, counseling, minor surgeries. Should be seen as
a approach to health care.
✔✔secondary care - ✔✔short term, consultation from a specialist, includes
hospitalization, routine surgery, specialty consultation, rehab
✔✔Teritary care - ✔✔highly specialized, technology driven, mostly rendered in large
teaching hospitals. May be long term. EX: burn treatments, neonatal intensive care,
tissue transplants, open heart surgery
✔✔Effectiveness of primary care - ✔✔lower hospitalization rates, lower total health care
rates, lower rates of self reported poor health, longer life expectancy
✔✔The future of health services delivery - ✔✔issues remain in the coverage of cost,
access, and affordability. There is also a shortage of health care workers.
✔✔PHYSICIANS - ✔✔diagnose abnormalities, prescribe treatment. Must be licensed.
✔✔DO's - ✔✔musculoskeletal systems. Stress preventative treatment like diet and
exercise. They take a holistic approach to care. mostly generalist.
✔✔MD's - ✔✔trained in allopathic medicine. Which views medical treatment as a active
intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in a attempt to neutralize the effects of
a disease. mostly specialist.
✔✔Hospitalists - ✔✔specialty is organized around the site of care, mange the care of
the hospitalized patients,
✔✔Primary Care - ✔✔portal to health care system, focuses on person as a whole,
follow patients through course of treatment
✔✔Specialty care - ✔✔generally follows primary care, more focused and intense,
associated with secondary and tertiary level of services, requires referral from primary
care physician
✔✔Dentists - ✔✔treat problems related to the gums, tissues or mouth
✔✔orthodontics - ✔✔straightening teeth
✔✔oral and maxillofacial surgery - ✔✔operating on mouth and jaws
, ✔✔pediatric dentistry - ✔✔dental care for children
✔✔periodontics - ✔✔treating gums
✔✔Prostodontics - ✔✔making dentures
✔✔endodontics - ✔✔root canal therapy
✔✔PHARMACISTS - ✔✔Dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and
podiatrists, and provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines. All
states require a license to practice pharmacy. The role of pharmacists has expanded
over the last two decades to include drug product education and serving as experts on
specific drugs, drug interactions, and generic drug substitution. GENERALIST.
✔✔NONPHYSICIAN PRACTITONERS - ✔✔Don't have a md or do degree. Has more
training than RN's but not as much as physicians
✔✔Managed Care - ✔✔system of health care delivery that seeks to achieve efficiency
by integrating the basic functions of health care delivery employs mechanisms to control
(manage) utilization of medical services, and (3) determines the price at which the
services are purchased and, consequently, how much the providers get paid. Managed
care is the dominant health care delivery system in the United States today and covers
most Americans in both private and public health insurance programs.
✔✔workers compensation - ✔✔originally designed to make cash payments to workers
for wages lost because of job related injury or disease, later compensation for medical
expenses and death benefits for survivors were added
✔✔medicare - ✔✔covers all elderly people over 65, covers non elderly people that are
disabled on social security, and nonelderly people with end stage renal disease. Title 18
social security act
✔✔medicare part A - ✔✔hospitalization and short term nursing home stay, financed
through social security taxes
✔✔medicare part b - ✔✔physician and other outpatient services, subsidized through
general taxes but participants pay part of the premium cost
✔✔medicaid - ✔✔covers only the very poor, public welfare, program varies from state to
state, all services are covered under one program, title 19 of the social security act,
financed by the states
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Primary care - ✔✔basic and routine services that include prevention, diagnostic, and
therapeutic services, health education, counseling, minor surgeries. Should be seen as
a approach to health care.
✔✔secondary care - ✔✔short term, consultation from a specialist, includes
hospitalization, routine surgery, specialty consultation, rehab
✔✔Teritary care - ✔✔highly specialized, technology driven, mostly rendered in large
teaching hospitals. May be long term. EX: burn treatments, neonatal intensive care,
tissue transplants, open heart surgery
✔✔Effectiveness of primary care - ✔✔lower hospitalization rates, lower total health care
rates, lower rates of self reported poor health, longer life expectancy
✔✔The future of health services delivery - ✔✔issues remain in the coverage of cost,
access, and affordability. There is also a shortage of health care workers.
✔✔PHYSICIANS - ✔✔diagnose abnormalities, prescribe treatment. Must be licensed.
✔✔DO's - ✔✔musculoskeletal systems. Stress preventative treatment like diet and
exercise. They take a holistic approach to care. mostly generalist.
✔✔MD's - ✔✔trained in allopathic medicine. Which views medical treatment as a active
intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in a attempt to neutralize the effects of
a disease. mostly specialist.
✔✔Hospitalists - ✔✔specialty is organized around the site of care, mange the care of
the hospitalized patients,
✔✔Primary Care - ✔✔portal to health care system, focuses on person as a whole,
follow patients through course of treatment
✔✔Specialty care - ✔✔generally follows primary care, more focused and intense,
associated with secondary and tertiary level of services, requires referral from primary
care physician
✔✔Dentists - ✔✔treat problems related to the gums, tissues or mouth
✔✔orthodontics - ✔✔straightening teeth
✔✔oral and maxillofacial surgery - ✔✔operating on mouth and jaws
, ✔✔pediatric dentistry - ✔✔dental care for children
✔✔periodontics - ✔✔treating gums
✔✔Prostodontics - ✔✔making dentures
✔✔endodontics - ✔✔root canal therapy
✔✔PHARMACISTS - ✔✔Dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and
podiatrists, and provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines. All
states require a license to practice pharmacy. The role of pharmacists has expanded
over the last two decades to include drug product education and serving as experts on
specific drugs, drug interactions, and generic drug substitution. GENERALIST.
✔✔NONPHYSICIAN PRACTITONERS - ✔✔Don't have a md or do degree. Has more
training than RN's but not as much as physicians
✔✔Managed Care - ✔✔system of health care delivery that seeks to achieve efficiency
by integrating the basic functions of health care delivery employs mechanisms to control
(manage) utilization of medical services, and (3) determines the price at which the
services are purchased and, consequently, how much the providers get paid. Managed
care is the dominant health care delivery system in the United States today and covers
most Americans in both private and public health insurance programs.
✔✔workers compensation - ✔✔originally designed to make cash payments to workers
for wages lost because of job related injury or disease, later compensation for medical
expenses and death benefits for survivors were added
✔✔medicare - ✔✔covers all elderly people over 65, covers non elderly people that are
disabled on social security, and nonelderly people with end stage renal disease. Title 18
social security act
✔✔medicare part A - ✔✔hospitalization and short term nursing home stay, financed
through social security taxes
✔✔medicare part b - ✔✔physician and other outpatient services, subsidized through
general taxes but participants pay part of the premium cost
✔✔medicaid - ✔✔covers only the very poor, public welfare, program varies from state to
state, all services are covered under one program, title 19 of the social security act,
financed by the states
