Chapters 1, 2, and 5

Question 1

True or False? The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program used penalties such as fines for hospitals to avoid readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation?

Answer 2

Control costs while improving the quality of health care

Question 3

Which of these government-funded programs is intended to provide individual healthcare for people with low incomes and who are uninsured?

Answer 3

Medicaid

Question 4

Which of the following has increased the prevalence of chronic and degenerative diseases?

Answer 4

Increased number of elderly persons

Question 5

Which of the following was not an issue when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was launched?

Answer 5

Preventative services were not available to those who were previously diagnosed with cancer and high blood pressure.

Question 6

Which of the following is not one of the ways that access to health care has been expanded?

Answer 6

Including preexisting medical conditions on persons older than 75 years of age

Question 7

True or False? Direct healthcare services provided by the federal government are limited to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Veterans Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, and Indian Health Services.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What is the function of the National Institutes of Health?

Answer 8

To support and conduct biomedical and behavioral research in the United States and abroad

Question 9

True or False? The introduction of personal protective equipment in the 1990s reduced the death rate from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by 80%.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True or False? The World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible for coordinating the team of healthcare workers at the city and state level across the United States during an epidemic.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Which of the following was the most important factor in the decline of mortality in the 20th century?

Answer 11

Improvements in essential hygiene

Question 12

States conduct annual telephone surveys of residents as part of which evaluation to pinpoint behaviors that increase risk for chronic disease, including diet, physical activity, smoking, and drug and alcohol use?

Answer 12

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

Question 13

Which of the following is a particularly virulent and antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain?

Answer 13

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Question 14

True or False? Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are fee-for-service organizations that agree to participate in the Shared Savings Program for at least 3 years.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Which chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States?

Answer 15

Cancer, Heart disease, diabetes

Question 16

Public health at the city and state level now includes which of the following important functions?

a.
Setting standards for automobile safety devices

b.
Supervising the quality of medical payment programs

c.
All the choices are correct.

d.
Licensing and accrediting health professionals

Answer 16

All the choices are correct.

Question 17

True or False? The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the individual mandate for everyone to have health insurance coverage.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False? Preventive health care will play an important role in achieving health care through recently expanded, federally funded primary care clinics, and public health clinics funded by city and state governments.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Which of the following are examples of service categories within the healthcare industry?

a.
Preventive services

b.
Therapeutic services

c.
Diagnostic services

d.
All of the choices are correct.

Answer 19

D

Question 20

The U.S. government agency that monitors infectious diseases and developed infection control measures for hospitals treating infected patients

Answer 20

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Question 21

Improves communication and efficiency in providing health care and will increasingly be used by the government to monitor the quality and cost of health care delivery

Answer 21

Health information technology (health IT

Question 22

A cause of skin infection in the community, such as in high schools and day care centers

Answer 22

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Question 23

Improves health by protecting against disease, lessening the impact of disease, or detecting disease at an early stage when it is easier to treat

Answer 23

Preventative health services

Question 24

True or False? There are more private, for-profit hospitals than all other categories of hospitals.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True or False? As of August 2020, Medicaid expansion had been implemented in 38 states, including Washington, D.C.; two additional states considering expanding Medicaid; and 12 states that were not expected to expand Medicaid.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

When instituted, the ACA stipulated that the federal government fund 100% of the cost of Medicaid expansion for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016, with a gradual decrease in funding to what percentage in 2020 and thereafter?

Answer 26

90%

Question 27

Which of these government-funded programs is intended to provide individual healthcare services for the elderly population?

Answer 27

Medicare

Question 28

Which of the following is the indicator of healthcare cost that is described as charity care?

Answer 28

Uncompensated care

Question 29

Which of the following statements is correct?
a.
The emphasis in public health is on prevention, in contrast to medical care, which emphasizes treatment of disease.

b.
The emphasis in medical care is on prevention, in contrast to public health, which emphasizes treatment of disease.

c.
The emphasis in hospitalization is cure, in contrast to ambulatory care, which emphasizes long-term management.

d.
The emphasis in insurance is to help people pay for all care, in contrast to Medicaid services, which emphasizes long-term care.

Answer 29

The emphasis in public health is on prevention, in contrast to medical care, which emphasizes treatment of disease.

Question 30

Treatment of chronic conditions in the elderly accounts for what portion of the total healthcare costs in the United States?

Answer 30

Two-thirds

Question 31

Which of the following requirements ensured the same benefits for all Americans regardless of the source of insurance coverage?

Answer 31

Essential Health Benefits