Health Plans Should Monitor Changes in the Environment and Emerging

question 55

Multiple Choice

Health plans should monitor changes in the environment and emerging trends, because changes in society will affect the managed care industry. One true statement regarding recent changes in the environment in which health plans operate is that

• A) Women as a group receive more healthcare and interact more often with health plans than do men over the course of a lifetime
• B) The focus of healthcare during the past decade has shifted away from outpatient care to inpatient hospital treatment
• C) The uninsured population in the United States has been decreasing in recent years
• D) The decline in overall inflation in the 1990s failed to slow the growth in healthcare inflation

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