AHM-520 Exam Dumps : Health Plan Finance and Risk Management

When analyzing budget variances, a health plan's management should pay attention to unfavorable variances only.

A health plan can reduce the problem of unattainable goals by involving responsibility managers in the preparation of their centers' budgets.

One reason that a health plan would use cost-based transfer prices to evaluate the performance of its profit centers and investment centers is because, under this method of setting transfer prices, the selling center has maximum incentive to operate effectively and control costs.

In responsibility accounting, all employees who have any influence over a health plan's department are held equally accountable for the operations and financial outcomes of that department.

Is the most common type of capitation

Is less attractive to providers when the arrangement sets provisions to limit risk

Sets provider reimbursement at a specific dollar amount per plan member

Transfers some of the risk associated with underwriting and rating from a health plan to a provider

Causes Dr. Meyer's capitation contract with Cardigan to transfer more risk to him than the contract otherwise would transfer

Specifies that Cardigan will pay Dr. Meyer under an arrangement other than capitation until a specified number of children covered by the plan use him as their PCP

Both A and B

A only

B only

Neither A nor B