Administrative Issues for Health Care Managers (Quizzes 1&2)

The current healthcare payment method that the US Healthcare system is transitioning into today is:

Value based purchasing system

The managed care era is characterized by which of the following:

Providing access to quality care at affordable cost
Premium costs by limits on services
Primary care physician as "gatekeeper"

Capitation reimbursement is a system under which a provider is paid specific amount of money to look after all the healthcare needs of a given population.

True

Mergers and Acquisitions occur for many reasons. Which of the following are not a primary driver of consolidation:

Hospitals and physicians work better when incentives are not aligned

HIPAA was mainly created to do which of the following:

improve the portability and accountability of health insurance coverage" for employees between jobs

Title II of HIPAA focuses on which of the following:

Administrative Simplification

The main purpose of changing to an EMR is which of the following:

Gather data

The most successful way to manage change/resistance with employees is:

Involve them in determining the nature of the change

The steps of the Deming Cycle (PDCA) are as follows:

Plan, Do, Check, Act

Which of the following steps is not part of an EHR adoption strategy:

Management turnover

Major aspects of HIPAA include all of the following except:

Ensuring standardized pricing for DRG based billing

The study of how managers should behave to motivate employees and encourage them to perform at high levels and be committed to the achievement of organizational goals is considered:

Behavioralism

Which of the following is not one of the 5 Principles of Bureaucracy:

A managers formal authority is not derived from the position he/she holds

Max Weber is considered the father of which management theory:

Structuralism

Which of the following is not a characteristic of classic bureaucracy:

Size

The capacity to obtain compliance from another without relying on formal actions, rules, or force is termed:

Influence

The zone of acceptance is the same as the_________________.

zone of indifference

Frederick Taylor is considered the father of which management theory:

Scientific management