AHIP AHM-530 - Network Management
The Festival Health Plan is in the process of recruiting physicians for its provider network. Festival requires its network physicians to be board certified. The following individuals are provider applicants whose qualifications are being considered:
Applicant 1 has completed his surgical residency, and he recently passed a qualifying examination in his field.
Applicant 2 has completed her residency in dermatology, and she is scheduled to take qualifying examinations in the next Six months.
Applicant 3 completed his residency in pediatric medicine six years ago, but he has not yet passed a qualifying examination in his field.
With regard to these applicants, it can correctly be stated that only
By definition, a measure of the extent to which a health plan member can obtain necessary medical services in a timely manner is known as
To protect providers against business losses, many health plan-provider contracts include carve-out provisions to help providers manage financial risk. The following statements are examples of such provisions:
The Apex Health Plan carves out immunizations from PCP capitations. Apex compensates PCPs for immunizations on a case rate basis.
The Bengal Health Plan carves out behavioral healthcare services from the scope of PCP services because these services require specialized knowledge and skills that most PCPs do not possess.
From the answer choices below, select the response that best identifies the types of carve-outs used by Apex and Bengal.
With respect to hiring practices, one step that a health plan most likely can take to avoid violating the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is to
The following paragraph contains an incomplete statement. Select the answer choice containing the term that correctly completes the statement.
One important activity within the scope of network management is ensuring the quality of the health plan’s provider networks. A primary purpose of __________________ is to review the clinical competence of a provider in order to determine whether the provider meets the health plan’s preestablished criteria for participation in the network.
One type of fee schedule payment system assigns a weighted unit value for each medical procedure or service based on the cost and intensity of that service. Under this system, the unit values for procedural services are generally higher than the unit values for cognitive services. This system is known as a
Four types of APCs are ancillary APCs, medical APCs, significant procedure APCs, and surgical APCs. An example of a type of APC known as
Provider panels can be either narrow or broad. Compared to a similarly sized health plan that uses a broad provider panel, a health plan that uses a narrow provider panel most likely can expect to
The Gardenia Health Plan has a national reputation for quality care. When Gardenia entered a new market, it established a preferred provider organization (PPO), a health maintenance organization (HMO), and a point-of-service product (POS) to serve the plan members in this market. All of the providers included in the HMO or the POS are included in the broader provider panel of the PPO. The POS will be a typical two-level POS that offers a cost-based incentive plans for PCPs, and the HMO is a typical staff model HMO.
The following statement(s) can correctly be made about Gardenia’s establishment of the PPO and the staff model HMO in its new market:
1. When establishing its PPO network, Gardenia most likely initiated outcomes measurement tools and developed collaborative process improvement relationships with providers.
2. To avoid high overhead expenses in the early stages of market evelopment, Gardenia’s HMO most likely contracted with specialists and ancillary providers until the plan’s membership grew to a sufficient level to justify employing these specialists.
The following statements can correctly be made about the advantages and disadvantages to an health plan of using the various delivery options for pharmacy services.
