HSC 203 Final Exam Review || QUESTIONS &
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American health care will be significantly affected by the population:
A. growing younger on average.
B. aging.
C. growing in number but being stable in age distribution.
D. crashing.
In the United States, the private sector is a dominant player in the healthcare system.
True
T/F: Nineteenth-century almshouses provided mainly rehabilitation services. correct answers
aging.
To improve the nation's health and resolve disparities:
A. it is critical to address both the social and medical determinants of health.
B. the health system must operate on a market-justice-based system.
C. The health system must operate on a social-justice-based system.
D. it is critical to address disparities arising from hereditary determinants. correct answers it
is critical to address both the social and medical determinants of health.
Private health insurance in the United States first emerged as a result of:
A.economic necessity.
B. social desirability.
C. political expediency.
D. cultural acceptability. correct answers economic necessity.
What is the main purpose of cost sharing?
A. It reduces the cost of health insurance premiums.
B. It prevents the providers from delivering expensive services without approval.
C. It limits the insured's out-of-pocket costs.
D. It controls the utilization of health care. correct answers It controls the utilization of health
care.
Which of the following is a benefit of primary care?
A. Higher professional reimbursement
B. Surgery standardization
C. Tertiary reimbursement
D. Gatekeeping correct answers Gatekeeping
What was the first major stage of the hospital's evolution?
A. Almshouses
B. University-based medical centers
C. Private inpatient facilities
D. Community homeless shelters correct answers Almshouses
Which of the following contributed to the growth of hospitals from 1930 to 1980?
A. Prospective Payment System (PPS)
B. The growth of managed care
C. Technological advances
, D. Increased use of skilled nursing care correct answers Technological advances
Which of the following is credited with having the greatest impact on the expansion of
hospital beds in the United States
A. Hill-Burton Act
B. Health insurance
C. Technological advances
D. Medicare and Medicaid correct answers Hill-Burton Act
What are "days of care"?
A. The total number of patients admitted
B. The total number of patient days
C. The length of stay of patients treated in a hospital
D. The number of days a patient stays in a hospital correct answers The total number of
patient days
What type of reimbursement method involves a fixed monthly sum per enrollee?.
A. Fee for service
B. Capitation
C. Service fee schedule
D. MCO correct answers Capitation
What was the main purpose of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973?
A. Place caps on the rise of health insurance premiums
B. Rein in the growing power of managed care
C. Provide an alternative to fee-for-service
D. Transfer the control of HMOs from the federal government to private companies correct
answers Provide an alternative to fee-for-service
Which among the following employs tighter utilization controls than the other plans?
A. Fee-for-service
B. PPOs
C. POSs
D. HMOs correct answers HMOs
Monitoring a patient's prognosis for recovery becomes important in which type of utilization
review?
A. Concurrent
B. Prospective
C. Preauthorization
D. Retrospective correct answers Concurrent
Research shows that issues with access to both primary care and specialty care prevail in:
A. PPO plans.
B. Medicare advantage plans.
C. Medicaid managed care
D. HMO plans. correct answers Medicaid managed care
What is long-term care mainly associated with?
A. Chronic conditions
ANSWERS RATED 100% CORRECT!!
American health care will be significantly affected by the population:
A. growing younger on average.
B. aging.
C. growing in number but being stable in age distribution.
D. crashing.
In the United States, the private sector is a dominant player in the healthcare system.
True
T/F: Nineteenth-century almshouses provided mainly rehabilitation services. correct answers
aging.
To improve the nation's health and resolve disparities:
A. it is critical to address both the social and medical determinants of health.
B. the health system must operate on a market-justice-based system.
C. The health system must operate on a social-justice-based system.
D. it is critical to address disparities arising from hereditary determinants. correct answers it
is critical to address both the social and medical determinants of health.
Private health insurance in the United States first emerged as a result of:
A.economic necessity.
B. social desirability.
C. political expediency.
D. cultural acceptability. correct answers economic necessity.
What is the main purpose of cost sharing?
A. It reduces the cost of health insurance premiums.
B. It prevents the providers from delivering expensive services without approval.
C. It limits the insured's out-of-pocket costs.
D. It controls the utilization of health care. correct answers It controls the utilization of health
care.
Which of the following is a benefit of primary care?
A. Higher professional reimbursement
B. Surgery standardization
C. Tertiary reimbursement
D. Gatekeeping correct answers Gatekeeping
What was the first major stage of the hospital's evolution?
A. Almshouses
B. University-based medical centers
C. Private inpatient facilities
D. Community homeless shelters correct answers Almshouses
Which of the following contributed to the growth of hospitals from 1930 to 1980?
A. Prospective Payment System (PPS)
B. The growth of managed care
C. Technological advances
, D. Increased use of skilled nursing care correct answers Technological advances
Which of the following is credited with having the greatest impact on the expansion of
hospital beds in the United States
A. Hill-Burton Act
B. Health insurance
C. Technological advances
D. Medicare and Medicaid correct answers Hill-Burton Act
What are "days of care"?
A. The total number of patients admitted
B. The total number of patient days
C. The length of stay of patients treated in a hospital
D. The number of days a patient stays in a hospital correct answers The total number of
patient days
What type of reimbursement method involves a fixed monthly sum per enrollee?.
A. Fee for service
B. Capitation
C. Service fee schedule
D. MCO correct answers Capitation
What was the main purpose of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973?
A. Place caps on the rise of health insurance premiums
B. Rein in the growing power of managed care
C. Provide an alternative to fee-for-service
D. Transfer the control of HMOs from the federal government to private companies correct
answers Provide an alternative to fee-for-service
Which among the following employs tighter utilization controls than the other plans?
A. Fee-for-service
B. PPOs
C. POSs
D. HMOs correct answers HMOs
Monitoring a patient's prognosis for recovery becomes important in which type of utilization
review?
A. Concurrent
B. Prospective
C. Preauthorization
D. Retrospective correct answers Concurrent
Research shows that issues with access to both primary care and specialty care prevail in:
A. PPO plans.
B. Medicare advantage plans.
C. Medicaid managed care
D. HMO plans. correct answers Medicaid managed care
What is long-term care mainly associated with?
A. Chronic conditions
