false - answer The U.S. Healthcare System is NOT fragmented and DOES NOT
undergo periodic changes.
*ITS FRAGMENTED AND UNDERGOES PERIODIC CHANGES*
TRUE - answer When technology advances, more people are denied of its benefits
due to costs is considered Tyranny of Technology
1960s - answer In what decade did the U.S. government begin analyzing the
information obtained from Medicare and Medicaid claims, and computerized hospital
and insurance data allowed the retrieval and exploration of clinical information files?
Affordable Care Act - answer What is ACA an abbreviation for?
88.5 Million - answer By 2050 how many individuals will be over the age of 65?
Increasing Access
Improving Quality
Reducing Costs - answer The ACA experiments with new models that test strategies
for:
Rural Health Network - answer is designed to address challenges of providing a
continuum of care with scarce resources, networks join rural health care providers in
formal, not-for-profit corporations or through informal linkages to achieve a defined set
of mutually beneficial purposes. Networks may advocate at local and state levels on
rural health care issues, cooperate in joint community outreach activities, and seek
opportunities to negotiate with insurers to cover services for their communities'
populations.
sunshine - answer provisions require reports of all financial transactions and
transfers of value between pharmaceutical/biologic products or medical devices and
physicians, hospitals, and other covered recipients reimbursed by the federal
government with up to $1 Million per year in company fines for non-compliance.
no - answer According to the textbook, does the American public have an adequate
understanding of the U.S. Healthcare System?
8th - answer Among 7 other developed nations, the U.S. Health status ranks
_________ on important health status indicators:
, Life expectancy at birth
Infant mortality rate
Probability of dying between ages 15 and 60
primary prevention - answer is a measured design to promote health and prevent
disease or other adverse health occurrences, e.g., health education to encourage good
nutrition, exercise, and genetic counseling, and specific protections, e.g. immunization
and the use of seat belts.
Introduction of new technology - answer Which of the following IS NOT an emerging
or continuing issue and challenge for healthcare?
Aging Population
Quality of Care
Access to health care - answer Which of the following IS an emerging or continuing
issue and challenge for healthcare?
secondary primary - answer is the early detection and prompt treatment of a disease
or condition to achieve an early cure, if possible, or to slow progression, prevent
complications, and limit disability. Most preventive health care is currently focused on
this level.
$2.7 Trillion in costs - answer According to the course textbook, how much money
was spent on healthcare in the United States?
TRUE - answer The U.S. Healthcare System is unique and unlike any other in the
world.
32 million - answer How many people is the Affordable Care Act "ACA" supposed to
cover by 2019?
tertiary prevention - answer is rehabilitation and maximizing remaining functional
capacity when a disease or condition has occurred and left residual damage.
1st Party: patient
2nd Party: providers
3rd Party: payer/insurer - answer Third Party Insurer and payer match the correct
party.
1974 - answer Health systems agencies are organizations that were established by
the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of what year?
TRUE - answer Medicare was formed in the Title XVIII amendment to the Social
Security Act of 1935.
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