Describe the characteristics of primary care.  How does this differ from secondary and tertiary care.  Include examples of primary care as well as secondary and tertiary care. To be able to record an answer via video, do the following: 1.  Click on add media   (9 icons from left) 2.  Click Upload/Record media- click record media 3.  Click on record – may be audio or video 4.  Record your answer.  Should be ONE minute or less 5.  Click SAVE 6.  You can listen to your audio recording, then SAVE or START OVER 7.  If you click SAVE you are finished with this question    

In the United States, the main job of health care cost containment falls to which sector:

Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) are designed to control health care costs through a variety of strategies. Which of the following is NOT a typical cost-control mechanism used by MCOs?  

Why are discharges an excellent measure of access to inpatient care?    

Why did MCOs receive backlash from consumers and providers in the later half of the 1990s? How did that impact the effectiveness of MCO objectives?  (please answer both parts of the question) To be able to record an answer via video, do the following: 1.  Click on add media   (9 icons from left) 2.  Click Upload/Record media- click record media 3.  Click on record – may be audio or video 4.  Record your answer.  Should be ONE minute or less 5.  Click SAVE 6.  You can listen to your audio recording, then SAVE or START OVER 7.  If you click SAVE you are finished with this question

Non-profit hospitals do not make a profit.

Hospital capacity refers to the number of people available to care for patients.

General characteristics of Managed Care Organizations (MCO) that is NOT correct is:

A hospital that is owned by a non-government entity, such as community associations, philanthropic foundations or religious groups are referred to as:

All of the following are factors that have contributed to the shift from inpatient to outpatient health care services EXCEPT: