HS 1 Unit 2 Study Questions # 1

  1. Based on the information provided in the textbook, briefly explain the magnitude of the healthcare industry.
  2. How do most private healthcare facilities generate funds to operate?
  3. Explain what is meant by a proprietary hospital.
  4. How does a general hospital differ from a specialty hospital?
  5. What is an oncology hospital?
  6. What is a pediatric hospital.?
  7. What is a psychiatric hospital?
  8. What is an orthopedic hospital?
  9. What is a rehabilitation hospital?
  10. What are three types of government hospitals?
  11. What is a university hospital?
  12. What are the patients called in a long-term care facility?
  13. How does a residential care facility differ from an extended care facility?
  14. What services may be available to individuals who live in assisted living facilities?
  15. What type of facility are independent living facilities often associated with?
  16. What are medical services provided in medical offices?
  17. Why are surgical clinics often called “one-day” surgical centers?
  18. What kind of care is provided in an urgent care clinic?
  19. What therapies are provided in rehabilitation clinics?
  20. What are two types of specialty clinics?
  21. What are outpatients?
  22. What are services often provided in health department clinics?
  23. Why might care cost less at a Medical Center Clinic?
  24. What is an optical center?

HS 1 Unit 2 Study Questions # 2

  1. What diagnostic tests are routinely performed by medical laboratories?
  2. What services are offered by home health care services?
  3. What is palliative care?
  4. What health care agency generally provides palliative care?
  5. What are examples of mental health facilities?
  6. What services are provided by genetic counselors?
  7. What are two examples of genetic disorders?
  8. What kind of care is provided by rehabilitation facilities?
  9. HMO care is directed toward what?
  10. What kind of services are provided through HMOs?
  11. What are services offered through industrial health care centers?
  12. What are services provided through school health services?
  13. What agency sponsors the WHO?
  14. What is the USDHHS?
  15. What service does the NIH provide?
  16. What is the focus of the CDC?
  17. What is the primary function of the FDA?
  18. When was the AHCPR established?
  19. What is the purpose of the AHCPR?
  20. What is the purpose of OSHA?
  21. What are services provided by health departments?
  22. Where do nonprofit agencies get funding?
  23. Are all workers in a voluntary agency unpaid?
  24. What are services provided by many nonprofit agencies?

HS 1 Unit 2 Study Questions # 3

  1. What is the gross national product (GNP)?
  2. According to the textbook, what portion of the GNP is spent on healthcare?
  3. What do many people rely on to help them pay for healthcare?
  4. What is a premium?
  5. Are all insurance plans the same?
  6. What is a deductible?
  7. What is a Co-insurance?
  8. What is a Co-payment?
  9. Where do many people get health insurance coverage?
  10. Why is preventive care beneficial to people who get their insurance through a HMO?
  11. What is the disadvantage of participating in an HMO?
  12. How does a PPO negotiate care at a reduced rate?
  13. What restrictions are placed on the participants of PPOs?
  14. What are the two main government insurance plans?
  15. Who is generally covered under Medicare?
  16. Who pays for Medicare insurance?
  17. What is the difference between Medicare Types A, B and D?
  18. What percentage of care does Medicare Pay for?
  19. What are Medigap policies?
  20. Who is generally covered under Medicaid?
  21. Where does the funding for the Medicaid program come from?
  22. Who determines eligibility for the Medicaid program?
  23. What is the SCHIP program?

HS 1 Unit 2 Study Questions # 4

  1. Who is covered under Workers’ Compensation?
  2. What additional benefit is provided by Workers’ Comp?
  3. Who is covered under TRICARE?
  4. What was TRICARE originally called?
  5. Who provides care for veterans?
  6. What is the concept of managed care?
  7. What two programs are the main providers of managed care?
  8. What is one reason that the HIPAA law was passed in 1996?
  9. HIPAA has five main components, what is the focus of the Health Care Access, Portability and Renewability component?
  10. How does the HIPAA legislation prevent fraud and abuse, and provide for simplification and medical liability reform?
  11. How does HIPAA provide for tax-related health provisions?
  12. How does HIPAA address application and enforcement of group health plan requirements?
  13. How does HIPAA address revenue offsets?
  14. When was HIPAA legislation compliance required?
  15. What are the benefits brought about by the HIPAA law?
  16. What is the purpose of an organizational structure?
  17. Who needs to know the function and goals of a health care facility?
  18. If an insurance policy has a co-payment of 70-30 percent, and an emergency room bill is $1000.00, what amount will the patient have to pay?