Chapter 36: Home Health
Nursing / Chapter 36: Home
Health Nursing fully solved
2024 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
,1. What became effective in 1966 by an act of legislation that
revolutionized home care?
a. Life insurance
b. Medicare
c. Private insurance
d. Social Security - CORRECT ANSWER-ANS: B
When Medicare became effective in 1966, it revolutionized
home care by changing it to a medical rather than nursing
model of practice, defining and limiting services it would
reimburse, and changing the payment source and even
changing the reason home care was provided.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 1165
OBJ: 2 TOP: Home health KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
2. A major change to Medicare reimbursement was
implemented in 1983. The new system paid a set rate
according to diagnosis. What was the new payment system
based upon?
a. Interim payment systems
b. Diagnosis-related groups
c. Title XVIII
d. Title XIX - CORRECT ANSWER-ANS: B
, The new payment system introduced in 1983 provided
reimbursement based upon set rates that were determined
by diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 1165 OBJ:
2 TOP: Home health KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
Nursing / Chapter 36: Home
Health Nursing fully solved
2024 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
,1. What became effective in 1966 by an act of legislation that
revolutionized home care?
a. Life insurance
b. Medicare
c. Private insurance
d. Social Security - CORRECT ANSWER-ANS: B
When Medicare became effective in 1966, it revolutionized
home care by changing it to a medical rather than nursing
model of practice, defining and limiting services it would
reimburse, and changing the payment source and even
changing the reason home care was provided.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 1165
OBJ: 2 TOP: Home health KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
2. A major change to Medicare reimbursement was
implemented in 1983. The new system paid a set rate
according to diagnosis. What was the new payment system
based upon?
a. Interim payment systems
b. Diagnosis-related groups
c. Title XVIII
d. Title XIX - CORRECT ANSWER-ANS: B
, The new payment system introduced in 1983 provided
reimbursement based upon set rates that were determined
by diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: Page 1165 OBJ:
2 TOP: Home health KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
