Capitation

question 13

Multiple Choice

Capitation

• A) creates pressures to provide fewer services.
• B) is a fixed payment determined in advance to pay for all medically-necessary care.
• C) is the maximum allowable fee in a fee-for-service system.
• D) shifts financial risk onto patients.
• E) Both a and b are correct.

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Definitions:

Rejection Region

The range of values in hypothesis testing outside of which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Categorical Variables

Categorical variables are qualitative variables that can take on different categories, but which do not have a natural order or ranking.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraints.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."