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✔✔Telemedicine technology that allows a specialist located at a distance to directly
interview and examine a patient is referred to as - ✔✔synchronous
✔✔what is the main intent of the Stark Laws - ✔✔prohibit self-referral by physicians to
facilities in which they have an ownership interest
✔✔Supply-side rationing is achieved primarily through - ✔✔central planning
✔✔The most stringent requirement of premarket approval regarding safety and
effectiveness apply to - ✔✔Class 3
✔✔The Safe Medical Devices Act, 1990 requires - ✔✔that injuries, illness, or death
from any device be reported
✔✔Which of the following has the greatest impact on system-wide healthcare costs -
✔✔utilization of technology once it becomes available
✔✔Medical recipients are classified as medically uninsured - ✔✔false
✔✔Under pure community rating, people are charged the same premium regardless of
health risk - ✔✔true
✔✔Under the ACA, private health insurance is NO longer the main source of coverage -
✔✔false
✔✔In a general sense, what is the primary purpose of health insurance - ✔✔protection
against risk
✔✔Under experience rating - ✔✔favorable risk groups pay a lower premium than high-
risk groups
✔✔If national health expenditures amount to 18% of the GDP, what does this mean -
✔✔health care consumes 18% of the total economic production
✔✔Cost is shifted from people in poor health to the healthy when - ✔✔premiums are
based on community rating
✔✔A health insurance plan pays for medical care only after the insured has first paid
$1,000 out of pocket on an annual basis. The $1,000 annual cost is called -
✔✔deductible
, ✔✔Medicare Part B premiums are - ✔✔income-based
✔✔To purchase private insurance through a health insurance exchange, premium
subsides are made available to people with incomes up to - ✔✔400% of federal poverty
level
✔✔Typically, tertiary care is highly specialized - ✔✔true
✔✔primary care practice in most industrialized countries in public - ✔✔true
✔✔During the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic, the US suffered from a high case rate that
occurred at a time when both the number of primary care visits and the number of
Americans with a usual source of primary care had declined in recent years. - ✔✔True
✔✔Women visit health care providers more often than men - ✔✔true
✔✔which of the following is an example of a secondary care service - ✔✔rehabilitation
✔✔which of the following is one of the three main elements of primary health care -
✔✔empowered people and communities, multi-sectoral policy and action, primary care
and essential public health functions as the care of integrated services
✔✔What does PPS stand for - ✔✔prospective payment system
✔✔which of the following is NOT a reason for hospitals to expand their outpatient
services - ✔✔expansion of patient base
✔✔In the emergency department, a condition that requires medical attention within a
few hours, with a longer delay presents possible danger to the patient, would fall under
which category - ✔✔urgent
✔✔The most prominent reason for the decline in the number of procedures preformed
in hospitals is that - ✔✔most of these procedures were shifted to the outpatient setting
✔✔Quality of health care is the main distinguishing factor between a general hospital
and a specialty hospital - ✔✔false
✔✔patients have the legal right to refuse medical treatment - ✔✔true
✔✔The Hill-Burton was passed to - ✔✔relieve the shortage of hospitals