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Eliminating unnecessary invasive cardiac procedures can both reduce costs and improve quality.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: TRUE
When prices go up, health outcomes usually don't improve.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: TRUE
Which is true of supply limits?
A. If you reduce the supply of hospital beds, you can save money and not reduce quality
B. If you increase the supply of hospital beds, you do not increase a patient's length of stay in the
hospital because doctors always know how many patients need to be in hospitals and for how long
C. If you reduce the supply of hospital beds, you always reduce the quality of care
D. Reducing the supply of MRI and cardiac surgery facilities can reduce costs but always hurts patients
Answer: A. If you reduce the supply of hospital beds, you can save money and not reduce quality
Aggregating health care payments has a greater chance of reducing health care costs than fee-for-
service payment.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: TRUE
Which of the following is true about patient cost-sharing?
2024
,A.Patient cost-sharing has never been studied in the United States
B.Co-insurance and deductibles are forms of patient cost-sharing
C.Patient cost-sharing never causes harm to patients
D.Because 10% of the population is responsible for 70% of health care costs, increasing cost-sharing on
the 90% of people with relatively low health care costs is an ineffective cost control strategy
E.B and D Answer: E.B and D
Price controls in a fee-for-service system always reduce health care costs.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: FALSE
Which is true of the figure below?
A. A rapid rise of the curve means that more spending is associated with better health outcomes
B. A slower rise of the curve means that more spending is associated with better health outcomes
C. Health outcomes improve much slower per dollar spent as health care costs increase
D. All of the above Answer: C. Health outcomes improve much slower per dollar spent as health
care costs increase
When Medicare introduced Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) in 1983, hospital costs went down slightly
but hospitals retaliated by charging other payers more.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: TRUE
Which of the following is true about US health expenditures per capita?
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, A. It doubled between 1980 and 2013
B. It may be close to 20% of gross domestic product by 2025
C. It continued to rise rapidly between 2009-2013, years of the economic recession
D. All of the above are true Answer: B. It may be close to 20% of gross domestic product by 2025
Prevention always reduces health care costs.
TRUE
FALSE Answer: FALSE
The figure below shows that it is impossible to get more bang from the health care buck.
(Showing the dashed line below the solid)
TRUE
FALSE Answer: FALSE
Which of the following are examples of painless cost control?
A.Reducing spending on childhood immunizations
B. In a city with many underutilized MRI scanners, reducing the number of MRIs
C.Reducing the prices of pharmaceuticals
D. All of the above
E. B and C Answer: E. B and C
Pay for performance (P4P) can result in improved performance for conditions that are measured, but
might lead to physicians and hospitals avoiding the sickest patients.
TRUE
2024
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