The Most Important Aspect of the Change from Fee-For-Service to Capitation

question 13

Multiple Choice

The most important aspect of the change from fee-for-service to capitation is that

• A)physicians get their money quicker.
• B)patients get faster service since physicians don't have to worry about getting paid.
• C)physicians make less money.
• D)the most valuable patient is no longer the sickest, but the most healthy.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

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Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Standard Deviation

A technique for measuring the degree to which data points are spread out or varied.