HMGT Midterm Question with accurate answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+

HMGT Midterm Question with accurate answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+ What topics must be considered every time regulations are created or analyzed in relation to healthcare? - -Quality, Access, and Cost The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986 created what critical mechanism for monitoring and reporting of physician discipline? - -National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Which policy conflict is NOT pervasive in ALL healthcare related policy contexts? - -Nursing home regulations under the Medicaid program T or F: The Texas Medical Association supports expansion of nurse practitioners' scope of practice to include independent practice of primary care to patients without physician oversight. - -False T or F: The Federation of State Medical Boards was formed to coordinate state licensing standards between the states. - -True Which of the following are agencies of the federal Department of Health and Human Services? - -Administration on Aging, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention T or F: Physicians are regulated by hospitals in which they practice through the mechanism of granting (or denying) medical staff privileges. - -True Describe the impact that physician licensure by the states has on the quality, access and cost of healthcare. Is the regulatory burden of licensure as it is designed worth the benefits overall? - -Quality: Increased, assurance of proper training Cost: Increased, more administrative procedures to train and test Access: Decreased, regulations limits who gets to provide services Burden: Tough, high quality but cost is already high enough Which agency(s) have been involved in federal participation in the oversight of trauma care? - -HRSA What statement(s) are true about CLIA regulations? - -Implementation is funded by user fees T or F: The "Oregon Experiment" began rationing care to Medicaid patients based on a cost to benefit ratio in the 1990s. - -True T or F: The Hill-Burton Act was significant as the first national health care financing initiative focusing on private providers. - -True Medicare covers the following: - -Hospital care, Physician care, and Prescription reimbursement Who was the first company to offer general insurance to cover medical services in the US? - -Baylor and/or BCBS EMTALA - -Increased access to care, Increased the cost of care, and Requires all patients to be examined and stabiilzed by an emergency room provider prior to transfer, if any.