HCM Final Exam questions with complete
solutions 2025.
In today's hospitals, outpatient clinics frequently provide: - ANSWER: all of the above
By law, the patient bill of rights must be displayed in all hospitals. - ANSWER: True
Early in the history of our country, hospitals were only for the wealthy. - ANSWER:
False
Community hospitals have been negatively impacted by the development and
competition of private specialty hospitals and diagnostic centers owned by physicians -
ANSWER: True
Hospitals have adopted information technology at slower rates than physician offices. -
ANSWER: false
Insurers, based on their own self interests, have contributed a vast sum of money to
spread misinformation and raise unwarranted fears about health care reform. -
ANSWER: true
Managed care refers to arrangements that link health care financing and service
delivery and allows payers to exercise significant economic control over how and what
services are delivered - ANSWER: true
Problems with quality and appropriateness of care dramatically affect cost of care. -
ANSWER: true
The "unintended" effects of healthcare legislation included which of the following? -
ANSWER: All of the above
, There has been a steady increase in hospital admission since 1980. - ANSWER: False
The shift from personal to insurance payment in healthcare distanced patients from
awareness of costs and resposibilities for decisions. - ANSWER: True
The nursing department is typically one of the smallest components of the hospital
organization. - ANSWER: False
The VA healthcare system: - ANSWER: All of the above
The healthcare system of the United States consumes more than 17% of the gross
domestic product. - ANSWER: True
The American Medical Association is the largest lobbying group for medical concerns. -
ANSWER: True
Which of the following are true regarding the healthcare system before 1940? -
ANSWER: fees were mostly paid by personal payment
Which of the following is false regarding the role of medical education in our healthcare
system? - ANSWER: they supply an adequate number of primary care doctors to staff
the healthcare system.
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery
system challenge because: - ANSWER: Neither Medicare nor private insurance support
ongoing, non-acute services
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary
prevention refers to: - ANSWER: Health promotion and specific protection
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary
therapies. This trend has caused: - ANSWER: many insurers and managed companies
to consider them less expensive and equally effective in keeping patients feeling well
The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with
dramatic high-tech medicine. As a result: - ANSWER: All of the above
The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - ANSWER: Access,
quality, and cost
solutions 2025.
In today's hospitals, outpatient clinics frequently provide: - ANSWER: all of the above
By law, the patient bill of rights must be displayed in all hospitals. - ANSWER: True
Early in the history of our country, hospitals were only for the wealthy. - ANSWER:
False
Community hospitals have been negatively impacted by the development and
competition of private specialty hospitals and diagnostic centers owned by physicians -
ANSWER: True
Hospitals have adopted information technology at slower rates than physician offices. -
ANSWER: false
Insurers, based on their own self interests, have contributed a vast sum of money to
spread misinformation and raise unwarranted fears about health care reform. -
ANSWER: true
Managed care refers to arrangements that link health care financing and service
delivery and allows payers to exercise significant economic control over how and what
services are delivered - ANSWER: true
Problems with quality and appropriateness of care dramatically affect cost of care. -
ANSWER: true
The "unintended" effects of healthcare legislation included which of the following? -
ANSWER: All of the above
, There has been a steady increase in hospital admission since 1980. - ANSWER: False
The shift from personal to insurance payment in healthcare distanced patients from
awareness of costs and resposibilities for decisions. - ANSWER: True
The nursing department is typically one of the smallest components of the hospital
organization. - ANSWER: False
The VA healthcare system: - ANSWER: All of the above
The healthcare system of the United States consumes more than 17% of the gross
domestic product. - ANSWER: True
The American Medical Association is the largest lobbying group for medical concerns. -
ANSWER: True
Which of the following are true regarding the healthcare system before 1940? -
ANSWER: fees were mostly paid by personal payment
Which of the following is false regarding the role of medical education in our healthcare
system? - ANSWER: they supply an adequate number of primary care doctors to staff
the healthcare system.
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery
system challenge because: - ANSWER: Neither Medicare nor private insurance support
ongoing, non-acute services
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary
prevention refers to: - ANSWER: Health promotion and specific protection
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary
therapies. This trend has caused: - ANSWER: many insurers and managed companies
to consider them less expensive and equally effective in keeping patients feeling well
The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with
dramatic high-tech medicine. As a result: - ANSWER: All of the above
The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - ANSWER: Access,
quality, and cost
