HSA FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system
challenge because - ✔✔Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute
services
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HSA FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system
challenge because - ✔✔Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute
services
Americans spend $9 billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend
has caused - ✔✔many private insurers and Medicare and Medicaid to provide benefit coverage
for certain treatments
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention
refers to - ✔✔health education and specific protection
In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the
authoritarian positions of better-educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and
grateful. Today, health care providers and consumers - ✔✔encourage more proactive roles for
patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-making"
Potential conflicts of interest occur when physicians own or invest in businesses (e.g. diagnostic,
medical supply companies) to which they can refer patients to generate profits. In response to
these physician conflict of interest issues - ✔✔The ACA includes "Sunshine provisions" require
reporting of all financial transactions and transfers of value between pharmaceutical/biologic
product manufacturers and physicians, hospitals and other entities reimbursed by the federal
government
U.S. annual health care expenditures far outstrip those of 7 other developed nations. In
relationship with expenditures, U.S. health population status ranking on critical indicators in
comparison with those other developed nations is - ✔✔Dismally lower
In the natural history of a disease, the pre-pathogenesis period refers to - ✔✔Behavioral, genetic,
environmental and other factors that may contribute to an individual's likelihood of contracting a
disease
The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power,
control of delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans, and influence on consumers
and providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is the most influential -
✔✔Government and private health insurers
The service priorities of the U.S. health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic
high-tech medicine. As a result - ✔✔little of the health care dollar is spent on prevention
the US system is the most expensive in the world
the US has the world's most advanced medical capabi
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