Sultz & Young Health Care USA Test
Questions Fully Solved 2026 Edition.
Academic Health Center - Answer A university-affiliated complex of professional academic
and clinical care facilities such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health
professions that are the principal places of education and training for physicians and other
healthcare personnel, the sites for most basic medical research, and the settings for clinical
trials. Also provides much of primary care for the economically disadvantaged populations in
their geographical area.
-Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - Answer A group of providers and suppliers of health
care, health related services, and others involved in caring for Medicare patients that voluntarily
work together to coordinate care for the patients that voluntarily work together to coordinate
care for the patients they serve under the original Medicare program. The ACA enables them to
share in savings to the federal government based on performance in improving quality and
reducing costs.
Accreditation - Answer Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental
agency grants recognition to a school or institution for demonstrated ability to meet
predetermined criteria for established standards.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) - Answer The independent,
not for profit professional organization that accredits 3-7 year programs of advanced education
and clinical practice required by physicians to provide direct patient care in a recognized medical
speciality.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Answer The Federal agency charged
with research to develop and disseminate evidence based practice guidelines.
aging in place - Answer A healthcare system that brings together a variety of health and
other supportive services to enable older, frail adults to live independently in their own
residences for as long as is safely possible.
*Alternative Medicine - Answer The practice of using non-mainstream treatment approaches
in place of conventional medicine
-Alternative Payment Model (APM) - Answer A Model through which physicians and other
healthcare providers accept a measure of financial risk and are reimbursed based upon prudent
resource use and quality of patients outcomes rather than on ha piecemeal fee-for-service
basis. Examples include bundled payments for care and accountable care organizations.
Ambulatory Care - Answer Services that do not require an overnight hospital stay.
,ambulatory surgery center (ASC) - Answer A facility performing surgical and nonsurgical
procedures on an ambulatory (outpatient) basis in a hospital or freestanding center's general
operating rooms, and other specialized rooms such as endoscopy units and cardiac cauterization
labs.
American Board of Medical Specialities (ABMS) - Answer An independent, not-for-profit
organization, assists 24 speciality member boards to develop and utilize professional and
educational standards that apply to the certification of physician specialists in the U.S and
internationally.
analytic studies - Answer Test hypotheses and try to explain biologic phenomena by seeking
statistical associations between factors that may contribute to a subsequent occurrence and the
initial occurrence itself.
Assessment - Answer Collecting and analyzing data to define population health status and
quantify existing or emerging health problems
assisted living - Answer A program that provides and/or arranges for daily meals, personal
and other supportive services, health care, and 24-hour oversight to persons residing in a group
residential facility who need assistance with the activities of daily living.
Assurance - Answer Governmental public health agency responsibility to ensure that basic
components of healthcare delivery systems are in place
-Balanced Budget of 1997 (BBA) - Answer The act contained significant changes to medicare
and medicaid. It extended healthcare coverage to uninsured children with a major funding
allocation to a new children's health program (CHIP). One of the most significant effects was
opening the medicare program to private insurers through the medicare+choice program, by
allowing financial risk sharing for the medicare program with the private sector through
managed care plans.
Basic Science Research - Answer Conducted by biochemists, physiologists, biologists,
pharmacologists, and others concerned with sciences that are fundamental to understanding
the growth, development, structure, and functions of the human body and its responses to
external stimuli.Much basic research is conducted at the cellular level
Behavioral scientist - Answer include professionals in social work, health education,
community mental health, alcoholism and and drug abuse services, and other health and
human service areas. Bachelor's or master's level degree professional in these fields counsel
and support individuals and families in addressing the personal, economic, and social problems
to state associated with illness, addictions, employment challenges, and disabilities.
, Block Grants - Answer Mechanism to shift the federal governments direct support and
administration of healthcare programs to state and local governments
-Bundled Payment care Initiative (BPCI) - Answer Developed by the CMS and CMMI that was
created by the ACA; recognizes that separate medicare fee-for-service payments for individual
services provided during beneficiaries single illness result in fragmented care with minimal
coordination across providers and settings, rewarding service quantity rather than quality.
Capitation - Answer a managed care reimbursement method that prepays providers for
services on a per-member per-month basis whether or not services are used.
Case Series - Answer a published summary of a small number of individual case in the
biomedical literature that usually occur for extremely rare conditions or for new illnesses or
syndromes and often when the diagnosis is unknown, typically without rigorous analysis.
generally developed by experts and undergo peer review before they are published.
Carve-Out - Answer A process through which insurers outsource subscribers' mental illness
care oversight to firms specializing in managing service use for mental health diagnoses.
certification - Answer a regulatory process, much less stringent than licensure, under which a
state or professional organization attests to an individuals advanced training and performance
abilities in a field of healthcare practice.
-Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - Answer Established by the balanced budget act
of 1997, it targets uninsured, eligible children for medicaid enrollment.
Clinical Observation Unit (COU) - Answer Dedicated locations adjacent to hospitals EDs or as
beds located in other areas of the hospitals, use a period of 6-24 hours to triage, diagnose, treat
and monitor patient responses whole common complaints such as chest pain, abdominal pain,
cardiac arrhythmias, and congestive heart failure are assessed.
Clinical Research - Answer Primarily focuses on steps in the process of medical care such as
early detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury.
Community-rated insurance - Answer Insurance plans in which all individuals in a defined
group pay premiums without regard to age, gender, occupation, or health status. It helped
ensure nondiscrimination against groups with varying risk characteristics to provide coverage at
reasonable rates for the community as a whole.
Questions Fully Solved 2026 Edition.
Academic Health Center - Answer A university-affiliated complex of professional academic
and clinical care facilities such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health
professions that are the principal places of education and training for physicians and other
healthcare personnel, the sites for most basic medical research, and the settings for clinical
trials. Also provides much of primary care for the economically disadvantaged populations in
their geographical area.
-Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - Answer A group of providers and suppliers of health
care, health related services, and others involved in caring for Medicare patients that voluntarily
work together to coordinate care for the patients that voluntarily work together to coordinate
care for the patients they serve under the original Medicare program. The ACA enables them to
share in savings to the federal government based on performance in improving quality and
reducing costs.
Accreditation - Answer Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental
agency grants recognition to a school or institution for demonstrated ability to meet
predetermined criteria for established standards.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) - Answer The independent,
not for profit professional organization that accredits 3-7 year programs of advanced education
and clinical practice required by physicians to provide direct patient care in a recognized medical
speciality.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Answer The Federal agency charged
with research to develop and disseminate evidence based practice guidelines.
aging in place - Answer A healthcare system that brings together a variety of health and
other supportive services to enable older, frail adults to live independently in their own
residences for as long as is safely possible.
*Alternative Medicine - Answer The practice of using non-mainstream treatment approaches
in place of conventional medicine
-Alternative Payment Model (APM) - Answer A Model through which physicians and other
healthcare providers accept a measure of financial risk and are reimbursed based upon prudent
resource use and quality of patients outcomes rather than on ha piecemeal fee-for-service
basis. Examples include bundled payments for care and accountable care organizations.
Ambulatory Care - Answer Services that do not require an overnight hospital stay.
,ambulatory surgery center (ASC) - Answer A facility performing surgical and nonsurgical
procedures on an ambulatory (outpatient) basis in a hospital or freestanding center's general
operating rooms, and other specialized rooms such as endoscopy units and cardiac cauterization
labs.
American Board of Medical Specialities (ABMS) - Answer An independent, not-for-profit
organization, assists 24 speciality member boards to develop and utilize professional and
educational standards that apply to the certification of physician specialists in the U.S and
internationally.
analytic studies - Answer Test hypotheses and try to explain biologic phenomena by seeking
statistical associations between factors that may contribute to a subsequent occurrence and the
initial occurrence itself.
Assessment - Answer Collecting and analyzing data to define population health status and
quantify existing or emerging health problems
assisted living - Answer A program that provides and/or arranges for daily meals, personal
and other supportive services, health care, and 24-hour oversight to persons residing in a group
residential facility who need assistance with the activities of daily living.
Assurance - Answer Governmental public health agency responsibility to ensure that basic
components of healthcare delivery systems are in place
-Balanced Budget of 1997 (BBA) - Answer The act contained significant changes to medicare
and medicaid. It extended healthcare coverage to uninsured children with a major funding
allocation to a new children's health program (CHIP). One of the most significant effects was
opening the medicare program to private insurers through the medicare+choice program, by
allowing financial risk sharing for the medicare program with the private sector through
managed care plans.
Basic Science Research - Answer Conducted by biochemists, physiologists, biologists,
pharmacologists, and others concerned with sciences that are fundamental to understanding
the growth, development, structure, and functions of the human body and its responses to
external stimuli.Much basic research is conducted at the cellular level
Behavioral scientist - Answer include professionals in social work, health education,
community mental health, alcoholism and and drug abuse services, and other health and
human service areas. Bachelor's or master's level degree professional in these fields counsel
and support individuals and families in addressing the personal, economic, and social problems
to state associated with illness, addictions, employment challenges, and disabilities.
, Block Grants - Answer Mechanism to shift the federal governments direct support and
administration of healthcare programs to state and local governments
-Bundled Payment care Initiative (BPCI) - Answer Developed by the CMS and CMMI that was
created by the ACA; recognizes that separate medicare fee-for-service payments for individual
services provided during beneficiaries single illness result in fragmented care with minimal
coordination across providers and settings, rewarding service quantity rather than quality.
Capitation - Answer a managed care reimbursement method that prepays providers for
services on a per-member per-month basis whether or not services are used.
Case Series - Answer a published summary of a small number of individual case in the
biomedical literature that usually occur for extremely rare conditions or for new illnesses or
syndromes and often when the diagnosis is unknown, typically without rigorous analysis.
generally developed by experts and undergo peer review before they are published.
Carve-Out - Answer A process through which insurers outsource subscribers' mental illness
care oversight to firms specializing in managing service use for mental health diagnoses.
certification - Answer a regulatory process, much less stringent than licensure, under which a
state or professional organization attests to an individuals advanced training and performance
abilities in a field of healthcare practice.
-Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - Answer Established by the balanced budget act
of 1997, it targets uninsured, eligible children for medicaid enrollment.
Clinical Observation Unit (COU) - Answer Dedicated locations adjacent to hospitals EDs or as
beds located in other areas of the hospitals, use a period of 6-24 hours to triage, diagnose, treat
and monitor patient responses whole common complaints such as chest pain, abdominal pain,
cardiac arrhythmias, and congestive heart failure are assessed.
Clinical Research - Answer Primarily focuses on steps in the process of medical care such as
early detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury.
Community-rated insurance - Answer Insurance plans in which all individuals in a defined
group pay premiums without regard to age, gender, occupation, or health status. It helped
ensure nondiscrimination against groups with varying risk characteristics to provide coverage at
reasonable rates for the community as a whole.
