Which of the Following Criteria Is Used to Determine Medical

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following criteria is used to determine medical necessity?

• A) Costly treatment is provided when compared with alternative methods.
• B) Least expensive service is provided to patient, regardless of outcome.
• C) Procedure or service is performed to treat a health care condition.
• D) Treatment has a 50 percent chance of being effective for health outcome.

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Definitions:

Real Numbers

A value on the continuous number line which includes all the rational and irrational numbers.

Possible Outcomes

All the potential results that may arise from a specific set of circumstances or an experiment.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the number of successes in a fixed number of independent trials, with each trial having the same probability of success.

Variance

An indicator of how much a dataset varies or is spread out from the average value.