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Collmarie · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Provide examples of each of the following.

a. Followers becoming more powerful than a designated leader
b. Followers not designated as followers

Question 2

Raising prices to offset lower monies paid from Medicaid and Medicare is called:

a. price fixing. c. capitation.
b. cost shifting. d. cost containment.

emily12345 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 7, 2018

Answer to Question 1

An example for A would be a well-respected nurse in a clinical unit that may have powerful influence on nurses in a unit (greater than the influence of the manager).
An example for B would be members of a professional organization.

Answer to Question 2

B
The practice of raising prices for the privately insured to offset the lower health care payments
received from Medicare and Medicaid and nonpayment from the uninsured is called cost shifting
(shifting the cost for services from one payer to another).