ACA is an abbreviation for what - answer Affordable Care Act
Healthcare in the U.S. consumes over __% of the Gross Domestic Product. - answer
17%
Optimism about the healthcare system grew with more information about the problems
of costs, quality, and access becoming public. - answer False
*Cynicism, not optimism
Which of the following is NOT a major stakeholder in the U.S. Health Care industry? -
answer non-citizens
U.S. healthcare is a unique, but fragmented system - answer True
What event in 1929 shook the nation, threatening the financial security of both
physicians and hospitals? - answer The Depression
____ sponsored programs account for 40% of the United States' personal health care
expenditures. - answer Federally
The Social Security Act of 1995 was the most significant social initiative ever passed by
any Congress - answer False
*1935, not 1995
The single most important impetus for health care reform throughout recent history has
been rising ___ and insurance premiums. - answer Cost
Basic definitions of health include all of the following except: - answer The presence
of illness or disease
President Obama signed the ARRA in February 2009. One of the main components of
this Act was to incentivize physicians and health care organizations to adopt and
achieve "______________" of EHRs. - answer Meaningful Use
The three essential components required for successful HIT implementation include all
but the following: - answer right EHR
, The federal government's financial incentive programs for providers to adopt
"meaningful use" of EHRs is in an effort to: - answer bridge the chasm between
costs and benefits
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) attempt to create all but which of
the following to facilitate the exchange of health information: - answer HIT
Of all the familiar institutions in U.S. society, the ______ is, at the same time, the most
appreciated, most maligned, and least understood. - answer hospital
Acute care hospitals are those that have one of three basic sponsorships. Which of the
following is NOT one of the three basic sponsorships?: - answer Owned and
managed by governmental facilities
Market reforms of the 2000s and impacts of the ACA continue to press hospitals
forward into altered patterns of ownership, operation, and reimbursement. - answer
True
A hospital operates just like any other large business, with a hierarchy constantly
concerned with a bottom line. Which of the following is not within the hierarchy
channels?: - answer self-righteousness
By 1900, medical advances in different areas revolutionized hospital practices. Which of
the following is NOT one of the areas of this revolution?: - answer advent of penicillin
Physicians called "Hospitalists" are rapidly taking over outpatient care in the U.S. -
answer False
*inpatient, not outpatient
____________ care comprises health care services that do not require overnight
hospitalization. - answer Ambulatory
Ambulatory care capacity has expanded in both the hospital-based and non-hospital-
based, or "____________", settings. - answer freestanding
_____________ constitute the predominant mode of ambulatory care in the United
States. - answer Private physician office practices
The introduction of Medicare reimbursement in 1966 dramatically altered the private
medical office and its billing and reimbursement processes. - answer True
in the 1990s, many hospitals acquired physician practices with the goal of capturing
new market share to do all but which: - answer all of the above apply
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