Match the Term with the Appropriate Definition or Description

question 22

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the appropriate definition or description:
-Services patients receive and the costs of those services are more a function of the region of the country in which they live than the services they actually need

• A)cost-push inflation
• B)demand-pull inflation
• C)diagnosis related groups (DRGs)
• D)Final Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
• E)gross domestic product (GDP)
• F)health maintenance organization (HMO)
• G)medical malpractice
• H)national debt
• I)Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• J)"pain and suffering"
• K)quality improvement (QI) initiatives
• L)regional variation in health care costs
• M)Roemer's law
• N)yearly deficit