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Purple HKB Questions

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What is the term which describes health-care workers and institutions that make health-care services available to those who want or need them?
Health-Care Providers
What do the initials HMO stand for?
Health Maintenance Organization
What term describes the methods designed to control the quality of health care as well as the cost of health care?
Health-care regulation
What are two major categories of ownership within the health-care system?
Government and private
What term is used to denote "short-term" illness?
Acute
What federal program provides hospital and medical insurance protection for people over sixty-five years of age?
Medicare
What federal and state program provides medical assistance for persons receiving public assistance?
Medicaid
What is the patient classification system set up by Medicare designed to help contain the cost of health care and reduce the burden on Medicare financing?
Diagnosis Related Groups
What person in the health care setting has the responsibility to recruit and interview applicants who wish to fill a position within his/her institution?
Director of Human Resources
A health care program for patients who are terminally ill is called what?
Hospice
What health care employee is the business manager who supervises the business office and is responsible for the hospital finances?
Comptroller
What role does the medical transcriptionist play in the health care setting?
Types medical dictation
What type of planning includes nursing home placement, home car planning, transportation, referrals to community resources and follow-up?
Discharge plannig
What are expenses incurred by hospitals in the treatment of patients?
Hospital costs
What is the term for the twenty-four hour period of time during which hospital services are provided to a hospitalized patient?
Hospital day
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