Raising the Costs of the Privately Insured to Offset the Cost

question 10

Multiple Choice

Raising the costs of the privately insured to offset the cost of Medicare and Medicaid is known as:

• A)cost shifting
• B)cost containment
• C)budgeting
• D)resource utilization

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Definitions:

Mean Difference

The average difference between two sets of numbers or measurements, often used to compare the means from two samples.

T-distribution

A type of probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, but with heavier tails, used especially in scenarios with smaller sample sizes.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or parameters in a dataset.

Student T-distributed

A probability distribution used in statistical analyses when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.