A Health Insurer Has Determined That the "Reasonable and Customary $\$ 1200 .$

question 98

Multiple Choice

A health insurer has determined that the "reasonable and customary" fee for a certain medical procedure is $\$ 1200 .$ They suspect that the average fee charged by one particular clinic for this procedure is higher than $\$ 1200 .$ The insurer wants to perform a hypothesis test to determine whether their suspicion is correct.

• A)Lower-tailed
• B)Two-sided
• C)Upper-tailed

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