LSUS MHA 710 EXAM 3 EXAM SCRIPT
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Income foregone
Answer: What is the most significant cost of attending medical school?
●● More scholarships and grants to cover medical school tuition
Answer: Which of the following would increase the supply of
physicians?
●● There are twice as many specialists as there are generalists.
Answer: Which of the following statements about the distribution of
physicians among specialties is true in the United States?
●● $200,000
Answer: According to surveys by the Medical Group Management
Association, the average primary care physician earned approximately
_______ in 2010.
●● At the point when the diagnosis is made.
Answer: The amount that Medicare pays a hospital for treating a
Medicare patient is determined:
, ●● horizontal integration.
Answer: The merger of two community hospitals located in the same
geographic market is called:
●● allows for the transfer of assets.
Answer: Compared to the not-for-profit organizational form, the for-
profit environment
●● long-run average costs decline as output increases.
Answer: Economies of scale exist when:
●● Most hospitals experience a gap between the amount they receive
from their payers and the amount billed, with receipts as low as 20
percent of amount billed.
Answer: Changes caused by the shift from charge-based rates to
negotiated rates has had which of the following results?
●● Savings from prospective payments are substantial and due primarily
to fewer hospital admissions and shorter hospital stays.
Answer: The expanded use of prospective payment in hospitals has
changed the nature of competition in that market. Which of the
following statements is true?
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Income foregone
Answer: What is the most significant cost of attending medical school?
●● More scholarships and grants to cover medical school tuition
Answer: Which of the following would increase the supply of
physicians?
●● There are twice as many specialists as there are generalists.
Answer: Which of the following statements about the distribution of
physicians among specialties is true in the United States?
●● $200,000
Answer: According to surveys by the Medical Group Management
Association, the average primary care physician earned approximately
_______ in 2010.
●● At the point when the diagnosis is made.
Answer: The amount that Medicare pays a hospital for treating a
Medicare patient is determined:
, ●● horizontal integration.
Answer: The merger of two community hospitals located in the same
geographic market is called:
●● allows for the transfer of assets.
Answer: Compared to the not-for-profit organizational form, the for-
profit environment
●● long-run average costs decline as output increases.
Answer: Economies of scale exist when:
●● Most hospitals experience a gap between the amount they receive
from their payers and the amount billed, with receipts as low as 20
percent of amount billed.
Answer: Changes caused by the shift from charge-based rates to
negotiated rates has had which of the following results?
●● Savings from prospective payments are substantial and due primarily
to fewer hospital admissions and shorter hospital stays.
Answer: The expanded use of prospective payment in hospitals has
changed the nature of competition in that market. Which of the
following statements is true?
