PHRM 5110 Acts

Question 1

**Legislative acts that improved healthcare

Question 2

Hill-Burton Act 1946

Answer 2

funding to build hospitals

Question 3

Health Amendments Act 1956

Answer 3

increased trained public health personnel

Question 4

Kerr-Mills 1960

Answer 4

health care is a right; old-age assistance pretty much

Question 5

Johnson’s Great Society 1964

Answer 5

goals was to eliminate poverty and racial injustice

Question 6

**Strategies to control costs

Question 7

Social Security Amendments 1965

Answer 7

established Medicare (elderly) and Medicaid (limited income)

Question 8

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Act of 1973

Answer 8

established pre-payment in healthcare; developed alternatives to traditional forms of health care delivery and financing

Question 9

HSAs established 1974 for:

Answer 9

established to monitor trends of increasing healthcare costs

Question 10

**Phase 4

Question 11

OBRA 1981

Answer 11

discontinued capitation funding for all health profession schools except public health

Question 12

Peer Review Organization (PRO)

Answer 12

maintained and lowered admission rates, reducing LOS, while insuring against inadequate treatment. PROs conduct review of medical records and claims to evaluate the appropriateness of care provided.

Question 13

Prospective Payment System (PPS) 1983

Answer 13

method of reimbursement in which Medicare payment is made on a predetermined, fixed amount.

Question 14

Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act

Answer 14

provides new prescription drug coverage under Medicare