HSAD 305 Final Exam | A continuing care retirement community (CCRC) _ provides different levels of long term care options in one location

Final Exam HSAD 305

A continuing care retirement community (CCRC)

a) provides only independent living options in a secure environment

b)delivers no clinical services such as nursing care and rehab

c)provides different levels of long term care options in one location

d)must be certified as a NF - ✔✔c) provides different levels of long term care options in one location

patient focused care is about

a) healthcare providers treating patients nicer

b) protection of medical info

c)Patients actively involved in their healthcare decisions

d)providing every medial service possible for each patient - ✔✔Patients actively involved in their healthcare decisions

a plan that doesn't allow enrollees to use providers outside the network

a) closed panel

b) deemed providers

c) carve out

d) any willing provider - ✔✔closed panel

examples of this type of medicine includes yoga, vitamin therapy, and acupuncture

a) acute care services

b) hospice services

c)complementary and alternative services

d) pallitative services - ✔✔c)complementary and alternative services

an informed consent form should contain all of the following EXCEPT

a) authorization clause allowing performance of the examination or procedure

b) signature clause for the patient and a witness

c)disclosure clause explaining the procedure

d) guarantee clause for therapeutic procedures - ✔✔Guarantee clause for therapeutic procedures

which of the following statements is true?

a) a chronic condition is relatively severe, episodic and often treatable

b) secondary prevention refers to rehabilitation therapies

c) people with better education have higher income and better health outcomes

d) the presence of an agent means that disease will occur - ✔✔people with better education have higher income and better health outcomes

an insurer lowered its medical loss ratio from 80 to 70. What does this mean?

a) the loss sustained by the insurer has increased

b) the loss sustained by the insurer has decreased

c)the insurer is spending less on the delivery of health care services

d) the insurer is spending more on the delivery of health care services - ✔✔the insurer is spending less on the delivery of health care services

this federal agency oversees programs for the elderly, poor, and disabled

a) CDC

b) CMS

c) ERISA

d) OIG - ✔✔CMS

Antitrust legislation is intended to provide checks against

a)anticompetitive behavior

b) self-referral of patients

c) fraud and abuse

d) payments for patient referrals - ✔✔anticompetitive behavior

what is the main function of the national institutes of health?

a) conduct and support research on health care quality

b) provide specialized training for medical specialists

c) conduct and support biomedical research

d) establish medical subspecialties in US medical schools - ✔✔conduct and support biomedical research

at a fundamental level, medical technology deals with

a) production of new equipment to provide more advance health care

b) new drug and devices

c) using discoveries made in basic sciences to improve health care

d) the application of knowledge produced by biomedical research - ✔✔the application of knowledge produced by biomedical research

Health policies are used in what capacity?

a) regulation of behaviors

b) allocation of income, services or goods

c) both - ✔✔Regulation of behaviors and allocation of income, services or goods

difference between HPSA and MUA is

a) HSPA is primary care and MUA is specialty care

b) geographic location

c)reimbursement methodology

d) all of the above - ✔✔geographic location

which of the following statements is true when it comes to healthcare in the US?

a) government spending is to fill in the gaps left by the private sector

b) all states have the same set of eligibility requirements

c) the uninsured consist mostly of adults over age 65

d) presidents have not had a substantial impact on national health policies - ✔✔government spending is to fill in the gaps left by the private sector