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Transcribed image text: QUESTION 29 [Chapter 19] How can price controls on the healthcare sector result in a decrease in services over time? As wages increase throughout the economy, price controls on the healthcare sector make it difficult for hospitals and medical groups to pay competitive wages and thus retain its employees to provide their current service.
Question 6 5 out of 5 points If the physician were a perfect agent for the patient, then the physician would prescribe medical services to the patient Selected Answer: taking into account the patient’s ability to pay and preferenc even though it may not be the least costly mix of services. Answers according to ...
Transcribed image text: [Chapter 4] Physicians are an imperfect agent in an HMO if they responded to a profit incentive: oby serving a larger number of patients and providing fewer services to each patient. by providing their patients with the appropriate medical services. o by referring patients only to HMO providers. o by referring patients to HMO and non-HMO providers.
they want to be associated with other physicians for the purpose of joint contracting with a health plan
Chapter 5: Insurers attempt to control moral hazard by:
fewer Medicare patients and accept lower private fees so that they can see more private patients whose fee is still higher than medicare's
Managed care used closed provider networks that required physicians to discount their fees to be included in the network
increases the Hosp medicare payments when employed physician s are able to bill medicare under part a rather then under part b
Patients with high income will skip the queue and see care in another country
No, because Congress does not follow the SGR update recommendations
they want to be associated with other physicians for the purpose of joint contracting with a health plan
Chapter 5: Insurers attempt to control moral hazard by:
fewer Medicare patients and accept lower private fees so that they can see more private patients whose fee is still higher than medicare's
Managed care used closed provider networks that required physicians to discount their fees to be included in the network
increases the Hosp medicare payments when employed physician s are able to bill medicare under part a rather then under part b
Patients with high income will skip the queue and see care in another country
No, because Congress does not follow the SGR update recommendations