Healthcare Providers Who Participate in a Capitated Payment Type of Health

question 23

Multiple Choice

Healthcare providers who participate in a capitated payment type of health maintenance organization ____.

• A) pay directly for medical services
• B) are salaried employees of the HMO
• C) get paid a per member per month rate
• D) receive bonuses for spending more time with patients.

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Definitions:

Population Mean Delivery Time

The average time taken to deliver goods or services across the entire population of interest.

Significance Level

The threshold below which the p-value must fall for the null hypothesis to be rejected in statistical testing.

Sample Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a sample dataset around its mean.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample set from a population, often used as an estimate of the population mean.