101 - 150 Flashcards
The only law that mandates a particular type of payment for time not worked.
a. FMLA
b. EMTALA
c. ADA
d. CMS
a. FMLA
102) Which position is included in the NRLB Bargaining rules?
a. Physician independent contractor
b. Nurse supervisors
c. Pharmacists.
d. Certified accountants
c. Pharmacists.
103) One method for evaluating relative value of different jobs is:
a. Broad banding.
b. Gant charting.
c. Scalability.
d. Benchmarking.
d. Benchmarking.
104) When discharging a patient from a hospital, the institution can be held liable:
a. For providing post-discharge medications for ongoing care.
b. If the patient uses public transportation after discharge and is involved in an accident resulting in injuries.
c. For abandoning the patient if the patient is in need of further medical care.
d. When patients are transferred to a less costly setting where adequate care can be provided.
c. For abandoning the patient if the patient is in need of further medical care.
105) Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA):
a. Benefits only those who are uninsured and unable to pay.
b. Originated due to concerns of patient dumping.
c. Excludes women in active labor.
d. Does not require facility to forward medical records to the second facility.
b. Originated due to concerns of patient dumping.
106) Which of the following health maintenance organization models exerts maximum control over physician providers?
a. Closed panel.
b. Open panel.
c. Network.
d. Point of service.
a. Closed panel.
107) What is generally prohibited by Stark II Laws?
a. A hospital paying a physician for admissions.
b. A physician receiving payment from another physician for a referral.
c. A physician referring a patient to a service owned by the physician.
d. A hospital referring a patient to its own home health agency.
c. A physician referring a patient to a service owned by the physician.
108) Under HIPAA, Congress required the Secretary of HHS to adopt standards to:
a. Create Pay-for-Performance Standards for CMS.
b. Provide for standard data elements and code sets.
c. Require electronic health records by 2010.
d. Publish clinical outcome results on Medicare patients.
b. Provide for standard data elements and code sets.
109) Which is the Shewhart process for performance improvement?
a. Plan, check, do, act.
b. Plan, do, check, act.
c. Analyze, formulate, implement, evaluate.
d. Analyze, implement, control, evaluate.
b. Plan, do, check, act.
110) Which of the following are parts of the dimensions of the strategic balanced scorecard?
a. Financial performance.
b. New technology.
c. Competitor activity.
d. Board/management team.
a. Financial performance.
111) The CEO of a 125-bed hospital realizes that her hospital is surrounded by three similar institutions and determines that her institution has no competitive advantage. Which strategy should she pursue?
a. Target many market segments based on demographics.
b. Prioritize market segments and heavily promote to key groups.
c. Advertise broadly to increase general awareness.
d. Recruit more physicians to admit to the institution.
b. Prioritize market segments and heavily promote to key groups.
112) If the average daily census on an inpatient medical surgical unit is 19, and the productive hours per patient day target is 7.2, and the productive percentage calculation is 8.5, how many fulltime equivalents (FTEs) should be budgeted for the productive core staffing?
a. 24.
b. 26.
c. 30.
d. 35.
a. 24.
113) What in the revenue cycle process is a major impediment to prompt payment?
a. Payment receipt and posting.
b. Claims submission.
c. Poor financial counseling.
d. Claim denial.
d. Claim denial.
114) When evaluating capital budgeting performance, what is the best indicator of operating leverage?
a. Debt to capitalization ratio.
b. Expense ratio.
c. Average age of plant.
d. Depreciation ratio.
b. Expense ratio.
115) An analysis of proposed capital investment typically includes all of the following except:
a. Cost of capital
b. Cash flow projections
c. Liquidity ratio.
d. Risk assessment.
c. Liquidity ratio.
116) Revenue cycle billing management typically includes what broad activities?
a. Billing and collections for inpatient, outpatient and surgical services.
b. Claims processing, denial management and claims payment.
c. Processing accounts payables, denial management and billing for outpatient services.
d. Activities before services are rendered, activities that occur simultaneously with the services and activities after services are rendered.
d. Activities before services are rendered, activities that occur simultaneously with the services and activities after services are rendered.
117) Who gives final approval of the medical staff bylaws?
a. The board.
b. The medical staff.
c. The board executive committee.
d. The medical staff executive committee.
a. The board.
118) Which of the following courts is often given jurisdiction to hear cases involving such matters as surgery for an incompetent person or the involuntary commitment of a mentally ill person?
a. Family court.
b. Juvenile court.
c. Appellate court.
d. Probate court.
d. Probate court.
119) To guard against the loss of assets, an administrator should do which of the following?
a. Encourage off-site storage of equipment.
b. Allow service directors to determine the frequency of asset inventories.
c. Ensure that billing and collections are handled by the same team.
d. Implement detailed procedures, risk control and annual outside audits.
d. Implement detailed procedures, risk control and annual outside audits.
120) A food service director is assigned responsibility for environmental services. This is an Example of:
a. Redundant management.
b. Matrix management.
c. Oversight management.
d. Service line management.
b. Matrix management.
