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

The types of financial risks and costs to which a health plan is subject depends on whether the health plan provides services to the Medicare and/or Medicaid populations or to the commercial population. One distinction between providing services to the Medicare and Medicaid populations and to the commercial population is that Medicare and Medicaid enrollees typically:

The amount of risk for health plan products is dependent on the degree of influence and the relationships that the health plan maintains with its providers. Consider the following types of managed care structures:

• Preferred provider organization (PPO)
• Group model HMO
• Staff model health maintenance organization (HMO)
• Traditional health insurance

Of these health plan products, the one that would most likely expose a health plan to the highest risk is the:

The sentence below contains two pairs of words enclosed in parentheses. Determine which word in each pair correctly completes the statement. Then select the answer choice containing the two words that you have chosen. Purchasing stop-loss coverage most likely (increases / reduces) a health plan's underwriting risk and (increases / reduces) the health plan’s affiliate risk.