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

Encourage Sunrise's physicians to perform services that are not medically necessary

Completely eliminate service risk for Sunrise's physicians

Decrease Sunrise's liability for any negligent acts of the physicians in the plan's network of providers

Help stabilize expenses for Sunrise

The net effect of using provider reimbursement contracts to transfer risk is that the health plan’s net worth requirement increases.

Once the health plan has transferred utilization risk to its providers, it is relieved of the legal obligation to provide medical services to plan members in the event of the provider’s insolvency.

The greater the amount of risk the health plan transfers to providers, the larger the credit-risk factor becomes in the health plan’s RBC formula.

By decreasing its utilization risk, the health plan increases its underwriting risk.

GAAP is established and promoted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), whereas SAP is established and promoted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

The going-concern concept is an underlying premise of GAAP, whereas SAP tends to focus on the liquidation value of the MCO or the insurer

GAAP provides for a single method of valuing all of a health plan’s assets, whereas SAP offers the health plan more than one method for valuing its assets

The principle of conservatism is fundamental to GAAP, whereas SAP generally is not conservative in nature