HSA FINAL Exam questions and correct answers| A Grade passed
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Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system
challenge because - Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, nonacute services
Americans spend $9 billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend
has caused - man...
HSA FINAL Exam questions and correct
answers| A Grade passed
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 capability
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act was a response to which of the following? - ✔✔public and
professional concerns about painful and demeaning terminal medical care
,The major health care advances of the second half of the 20th century were in the area of -
✔✔vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases, tranquilizers, the
birth control pill
Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades, was
modeled after - ✔✔Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan
As early as the 19th century some Americans carried "health insurance" through employers,
unlike health insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for - ✔✔Fixed
payments to compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness or disability
The Medicaid program has a history of very low reimbursement as compared with Medicare
reimbursement; critics site low Medicaid reimbursement as a major reason that primary care
doctors have rejected serving the Medicaid population. An ACA provision addresses this issue
by - ✔✔Requiring physicians to document their losses from Medicaid payment in relation to
their costs in order to receive increased reimbursement for services to Medicaid patients
The American Medical Association's initial reaction to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans
suggested that the plans - ✔✔Were unsound and unethical
, The explosion of science and technology in the 1970s resulted in which of the following? -
✔✔Encouragement for physicians'
specialization Higher costs of health care
Medical school efforts to attract more students to primary care
The most significant social legislation passed by any Congress in the history of the United States
was the - ✔✔Social Security Act of 1935
A central provision of the ACA to assure health care coverage for most Americans is -
✔✔the individual mandate
One of the first, most influential "plans" for hospital coverage, which generated the Blue Cross
hospital insurance - ✔✔Baylor University Hospital plan
Policies that call on the government to prescribe and control behavior of a group of individuals in
which sanctions are imposed for noncompliance - ✔✔Regulatory
The majority of financing in the US Health Care system comes from - ✔✔private sources
The US health care system is unlike any in the world because - ✔✔it is
fragmented it is a $2.7 trillion industry
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