CMS Handles the Daily Operation of the Medicare Program Through

question 2

Multiple Choice

CMS handles the daily operation of the Medicare program through the use of ____ ____ ____, formerly Fiscal Intermediaries.

• A)Medical Adjustment Contractor
• B)Medicare Administrative Cooperative
• C)Medicare Administrative Contractors
• D)Medical Administrative Contractors

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Definitions:

Outliers

Data points that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population, often indicating a measurement or transcription error, or a novel phenomenon.

Variance

Measures the variability or spread of a set of data points around their mean; it's calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and organize the information in a data set to describe its various features, such as mean or standard deviation, without drawing inferences about the population.

Box Plot

A standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on a five-number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.