AHIP Governance and Regulation - AHM-510 Exam Practice Test
There are several exceptions to the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act and its amendments (the Stark laws), which prohibit a physician from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients for certain designated services or supplies provided by entities in which the physician has a financial interest. Consider whether the situations described below qualify as exceptions to the Stark laws:
Situation A: Dr. Wong is a physician in the Marvel Health Plan's provider network and has a financial relationship with Marvel arising from the health plan's compensation for his services. Marvel is not a prepaid health plan.
Situation B: Dr. Ryder is a physician in the provider network of the Glen Health Plan, which is not a prepaid health plan. In situations of medical necessity, Dr. Ryder refers Glen patients to a physical therapy clinic that leases office space from him.
Situation C: Dr. Yost has a compensation arrangement with a health plan for providing health services under the Medicare+Choice program.
An arrangement that is exempt from the Stark laws is described in
Situation A: Dr. Wong is a physician in the Marvel Health Plan's provider network and has a financial relationship with Marvel arising from the health plan's compensation for his services. Marvel is not a prepaid health plan.
Situation B: Dr. Ryder is a physician in the provider network of the Glen Health Plan, which is not a prepaid health plan. In situations of medical necessity, Dr. Ryder refers Glen patients to a physical therapy clinic that leases office space from him.
Situation C: Dr. Yost has a compensation arrangement with a health plan for providing health services under the Medicare+Choice program.
An arrangement that is exempt from the Stark laws is described in
Correct Answer: C
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The Opal Health Plan complies with all of the provisions of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 (NMHPA). Samantha Hill and Debra Chao are Opal enrollees. Ms. Hill was hospitalized for a cesarean birth, and Ms. Chao was hospitalized for a normal delivery. From the following answer choices, select the response that indicates the minimum hospital stay for which Opal, under NMHPA, must provide benefits for Ms. Hill and Ms. Chao.
Correct Answer: B
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The government uses various tools within the realm of two broad categories of public policy-allocative policies and regulatory policies. In the context of public policy, laws that fall into the category of allocative policy include
Correct Answer: A
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SoundCare Health Services, a health plan, recently conducted a situation analysis. One step in this analysis required SoundCare to examine its current activities, its strengths and weaknesses, and its ability to respond to potential threats and opportunities in the environment. This activity provided SoundCare with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities. One weakness that SoundCare identified during this process was that it lacked an effective program for preventing and detectingviolations of law. SoundCare decided to remedy this weakness by using the 1991 Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations as a model for its compliance program.
With respect to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, actions that SoundCare should take in developing its compliance program include
With respect to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, actions that SoundCare should take in developing its compliance program include
Correct Answer: D
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The Hanford Health Plan has delegated the credentialing of its providers to the Sienna Group, a credential verification organization (CVO). If the contract between Hanford and Sienna complies with all of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) guidelines for delegation of credentialing, then this contract
Correct Answer: A
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TRICARE, a military healthcare program, offers eligible beneficiaries three options for healthcare services: TRICARE Prime, TRICARE Extra, and TRICARE Standard. With respect to plan features, both an annual deductible and claims filing requirements must be met, regardless of whether care is delivered by network providers, under
Correct Answer: B
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The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 created the Medicare+Choice plan. One provision of the BBA under Medicare+Choice is that the BBA
Correct Answer: B
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The Nonprofit Institutions Act allows the Neighbor Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital, to purchase at a discount drugs for its 'own use'. Consider whether the following sales of drugs were not for Neighbor's own use and therefore were subject to antitrust enforcement:
Elijah Jamison, a former patient of Neighbor, renewed a prescription that was originally dispensed when he was discharged from Neighbor.
Neighbor filled a prescription for Camille Raynaud, who has no connection to Neighbor other than that her prescribing physician is located in a nearby physician's office building.
Neighbor filled a prescription for Nigel Dixon, who is a friend of a Neighbor medical staff member.
With respect to the United States Supreme Court's definition of 'own use,' the drug sales
that were not for Neighbor's own use were the sales that Neighbor made to
Elijah Jamison, a former patient of Neighbor, renewed a prescription that was originally dispensed when he was discharged from Neighbor.
Neighbor filled a prescription for Camille Raynaud, who has no connection to Neighbor other than that her prescribing physician is located in a nearby physician's office building.
Neighbor filled a prescription for Nigel Dixon, who is a friend of a Neighbor medical staff member.
With respect to the United States Supreme Court's definition of 'own use,' the drug sales
that were not for Neighbor's own use were the sales that Neighbor made to
Correct Answer: B
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