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cookcarl

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Factors that have worked together to increase health care costs include all of the following except
 
  1. Apathy of federal and state legislators toward health care issues.
  2. Change in population demographics and an increase in chronic health conditions.
  3. General economic inflation and an increase in the income of health care providers.
  4. Growth in private insurance and third-party payment for services.
  5. Increasing dependence on technology.

Question 2

Third-party reimbursement refers to a
 
  1. Negotiated, prepaid fixed fee for each covered individual or family in a health care plan.
  2. Prepaid and coordinated fee-for-service health care plan designed to encourage greater control over the use and cost of health care services.
  3. Specified flat fee per unit of service or time that the individual pays.
  4. System in which fiscal payment for health care services is provided by an intermediary such as an insurance company.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: 1

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 4



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