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Until the mid-1980s, hospitals were reimbursed for whatever they charged
on a "retrospective" basis. Now they are paid a certain amount for each
patient's care on a predetermined "prospective" basis. The amount they are
paid is based on: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔diagnosis related groups (DRGs)
, A major obligation of doctors when obtaining informed consent for a
medical procedure is to: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ensure that the patient
understands the risks and benefits of the procedure
The development that contributed most significantly to the decline of the
social mission of voluntary hospitals was the: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔enactment
of private and public insurance reimbursement for hospital care
In health care, which of the following terms refers to a system that includes
several service components with each addressing one or more dimensions
of a population's health care needs? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Vertically integrated
Hospital value-based purchasing now required by the ACA for over 3,000
Medicare participating hospitals is a program that may be best described
as using: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Incentive payments for achievements and
improvements in clinical care and patient satisfaction
In colonial America, the primary functions of hospitals were to: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔shelter older adults, the dying, orphans, and vagrants and
protect community residents from contagiously sick and mentally ill persons
In its landmark report on hospital errors, "To Err is Human," the Institute of
Medicine emphasized that errors in care most typically originate from which