PHA 308 Exam 1 Review Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Who was the first person to get a medicare card? - ANSWERSHarry Truman
The ___ is performed every 10 years and required by the government - ANSWERScensus
True or false: patients without insurance are typically seen in the ER more - ANSW...
Who was the first person to get a medicare card? - ANSWERSHarry Truman
The ___ is performed every 10 years and required by the government - ANSWERScensus
True or false: patients without insurance are typically seen in the ER more - ANSWERStrue
What organization collects data from the states? - ANSWERSNCHS (National Center for Healthcare
Statistics)
What is the data on births, deaths, marriages, and divorces called? - ANSWERSvital statistics
What is another name for birth rate? - ANSWERSnatality
What is the number of births for 1000 women ages 15-44 called? - ANSWERSfertility rate
True or False: Medicare was passed in 1966 - ANSWERSfalse (1965)
True or False: Medicare part A pays physicians - ANSWERSfalse (hospitals)
True or False: Managed care relies on financial incentive to change behavior - ANSWERStrue
True or False: Infant mortality rates can be related to socioeconomic conditions - ANSWERStrue
True or False: HMOs are the most restrictive type of managed care and is the cheapest - ANSWERStrue
, True or False: Health insurance was originally designed for sickness insurance for wage earners -
ANSWERStrue
True or False: As the length of stay decreases, the cost to the pharmacy also decreases - ANSWERSfalse
(outpatients still need medications)
True or False: Comprehensive health insurance is one cause for the increased expenditures in healthcare
- ANSWERStrue
True or False: CHIP provides insurance for children under the age of 18 depending on the income of the
parents - ANSWERStrue
True or False: In effort to reduce budget, we need to reduce healthcare costs - ANSWERStrue
True or False: Managed care was made in order to improve quality and accessibility of healthcare -
ANSWERStrue
True or False: In a managed care plan, the patient's choice of physician is restricted to those in the plans
provider panel - ANSWERStrue
True or False: In managed care, the PCP manages patient care and controls diagnostic and specialist
referrals in HMO plans - ANSWERStrue
True or False: Managed care has both recurrent and retrospective review in hospitals - ANSWERStrue
True or False: PBMs provide discounts on mail order medications - ANSWERStrue
True or False: PBMs negotiate drug prices with drug companies - ANSWERStrue
True or False: PBMs have formularies to help control costs - ANSWERStrue
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