Nursing 3000 Exam test questions
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Although the ACA will enact sweeping U.S. healthcare system reforms, one fundamental element of
the system will remain unchanged is: - ANS✅✅Financing of health care through a combination of
public and private sources.
The primary reason why the number of uninsured Americans dropped by over one million in 2011
was: - ANS✅✅newly insured young adults who could continue coverage under their parent's
health insurance.
The highest personal care expenditure in the United States is for - ANS✅✅hospital care
Despite U.S. Healthcare spending exceeding by far the expenditures of 12 other developing nations,
U.S. health outcomes lag far behind. Extensive research has concluded that reasons for high U.S.
high expenditures are: - ANS✅✅higher U.S. per capita income
Major drives of U.S. Health expenditures include: - ANS✅✅medical technology, growth in the
older population, specialty medicine, labor intensity, and volume-based reimbursement incentives.
One aim of managed care is to transfer some measure of financial risk to beneficiaries. One way of
transferring financial risk to beneficiaries is: - ANS✅✅using fee withholds.
Goals of high-deductible health plans include which of the following? - ANS✅✅Offering lower
health insurance premiums in exchange for beneficiaries' agreement to make out-of-pocket, up-
front payments for health services up to a pre-set maximum
The centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in 2007 that it would no longer reimburse
hospitals for the cost of "never-events." Such events are best described as: - ANS✅✅egregious,
usually preventable errors that results in death or significant disability, such as surgery performed on
the wrong body part
The original intent of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was to: - ANS✅✅enroll 10
million un-insuranced children in Medicaid whose family incomes were too high to qualify for
Medicaid but too low to purchase private health insurance
, Under the ACA, states' Medicaid program expansion is optional. For states opting to participate in
expansions, the federal government provides which of the following levels of support? -
ANS✅✅100% of state expenditures for new children enrollees through 2016 and 90% of state
expenses for new children enrollee's family members through 2020
Under the ACA, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or be penalized with an
annual fee. This requirement is known as: - ANS✅✅Individual mandate
As defined and required by the ACA, health insurance marketplaces (HIMs) intend to: -
ANS✅✅create a competitive health insurances market by providing web-based, easily
understandable comparative information to consumers on plan choices with standardized rules
regarding health plan offers and pricing
The diagnosis-related groups (DRG) payment methodology shifted hospital reimbursement from a
fee-for-service retrospective mode to a pre-paid prospective basis. A major purpose of this new
payment system was to: - ANS✅✅provide financial incentives for hospitals to spend no more than
needed to produce optimal outcomes for hospitalized patients.
The managed care concept called "capitation" refers to - ANS✅✅managed care reimbursement
that prepays providers for services on a per-member per-month basis whether or not services are
used
Long-term care is best described as - ANS✅✅services provided in both home and institutional
settings for persons of all ages with varying levels of medical, social, and personal care needs
Which of the following societal factors increase the need for formal long-term care services -
ANS✅✅All of these are correct: women working outside of the home, high divorce rates, smaller
family sizes
The U.S. history of institutional long-term care began with: - ANS✅✅communal care settings
operated by charitable community members and government supported almshouses
The development of formal home care services, such as those provided by the Visiting Nurses
Association, originated as: - ANS✅✅A social response to improve unhealthy living conditions of
immigrants residing in crowded urban tenements and prevent the spread of infectious diseases
Long-term care and nursing-home reform legislation of the 1970s occurred as a response to which of
the following? - ANS✅✅Widespread media reports and Congressional hearings on nursing home
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Although the ACA will enact sweeping U.S. healthcare system reforms, one fundamental element of
the system will remain unchanged is: - ANS✅✅Financing of health care through a combination of
public and private sources.
The primary reason why the number of uninsured Americans dropped by over one million in 2011
was: - ANS✅✅newly insured young adults who could continue coverage under their parent's
health insurance.
The highest personal care expenditure in the United States is for - ANS✅✅hospital care
Despite U.S. Healthcare spending exceeding by far the expenditures of 12 other developing nations,
U.S. health outcomes lag far behind. Extensive research has concluded that reasons for high U.S.
high expenditures are: - ANS✅✅higher U.S. per capita income
Major drives of U.S. Health expenditures include: - ANS✅✅medical technology, growth in the
older population, specialty medicine, labor intensity, and volume-based reimbursement incentives.
One aim of managed care is to transfer some measure of financial risk to beneficiaries. One way of
transferring financial risk to beneficiaries is: - ANS✅✅using fee withholds.
Goals of high-deductible health plans include which of the following? - ANS✅✅Offering lower
health insurance premiums in exchange for beneficiaries' agreement to make out-of-pocket, up-
front payments for health services up to a pre-set maximum
The centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in 2007 that it would no longer reimburse
hospitals for the cost of "never-events." Such events are best described as: - ANS✅✅egregious,
usually preventable errors that results in death or significant disability, such as surgery performed on
the wrong body part
The original intent of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was to: - ANS✅✅enroll 10
million un-insuranced children in Medicaid whose family incomes were too high to qualify for
Medicaid but too low to purchase private health insurance
, Under the ACA, states' Medicaid program expansion is optional. For states opting to participate in
expansions, the federal government provides which of the following levels of support? -
ANS✅✅100% of state expenditures for new children enrollees through 2016 and 90% of state
expenses for new children enrollee's family members through 2020
Under the ACA, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or be penalized with an
annual fee. This requirement is known as: - ANS✅✅Individual mandate
As defined and required by the ACA, health insurance marketplaces (HIMs) intend to: -
ANS✅✅create a competitive health insurances market by providing web-based, easily
understandable comparative information to consumers on plan choices with standardized rules
regarding health plan offers and pricing
The diagnosis-related groups (DRG) payment methodology shifted hospital reimbursement from a
fee-for-service retrospective mode to a pre-paid prospective basis. A major purpose of this new
payment system was to: - ANS✅✅provide financial incentives for hospitals to spend no more than
needed to produce optimal outcomes for hospitalized patients.
The managed care concept called "capitation" refers to - ANS✅✅managed care reimbursement
that prepays providers for services on a per-member per-month basis whether or not services are
used
Long-term care is best described as - ANS✅✅services provided in both home and institutional
settings for persons of all ages with varying levels of medical, social, and personal care needs
Which of the following societal factors increase the need for formal long-term care services -
ANS✅✅All of these are correct: women working outside of the home, high divorce rates, smaller
family sizes
The U.S. history of institutional long-term care began with: - ANS✅✅communal care settings
operated by charitable community members and government supported almshouses
The development of formal home care services, such as those provided by the Visiting Nurses
Association, originated as: - ANS✅✅A social response to improve unhealthy living conditions of
immigrants residing in crowded urban tenements and prevent the spread of infectious diseases
Long-term care and nursing-home reform legislation of the 1970s occurred as a response to which of
the following? - ANS✅✅Widespread media reports and Congressional hearings on nursing home
