An NP Is Investigating Regulations for Third-Party Reimbursement

question 24

Multiple Choice

An NP is investigating regulations for third-party reimbursement.Which information will the NP most likely discover?

• A) NPs are reimbursed when directly supervised by a physician.
• B) NPs only receive reimbursement when working in rural areas.
• C) NPs are reimbursed at 85% of the physician rate.
• D) NPs are unable to be reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A span of values, obtained from sample information, which is expected to encompass the value of an unidentified population characteristic.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by adding all the numbers together and dividing by the count of values.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, showing how much the values differ from the mean.

Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, calculated as the sum of the values divided by the number of values.