Free AHIP AHM-520 Exam Questions

The Jasmine Company, which self-funds the health plan for its 200 employees, has established a 501(c)(9) trust as a means of addressing possible claims fluctuations under the health plan. This plan is not a part of a collective bargaining process.

A potential disadvantage to Jasmine of using a 501(c)(9) trust is that:

The Fairway health plan is a for-profit health plan that issues stock. The following data was taken from Fairway's financial statements:

Current assets.....$5,000,000 -

Total assets.....$6,000,000 -

Current liabilities.....$2,500,000

Total liabilities.....$3,600,000

Stockholders' equity.....$2,400,000

Fairway's total revenues for the previous financial period were $7,200,000, and its net income for that period was $180,000.

Assume that the healthcare industry average for the debt-to-equity ratio is 0.90.

The following statement(s) can correctly be made about Fairway's debt to equity ratio:

A health plan can use segment margins to evaluate the profitability of its profit centers.

One characteristic of a segment margin is that this margin:

The Marble Health Plan sets aside a PMPM amount for each specialty.

When a PCP in Marble's provider network refers a Marble plan member to a specialist and the specialist provides medical services to the member, the specialist begins to receive a share of those funds on a monthly basis. Marble determines the monthly payment for each specialist by dividing the number of active patients for that specialty by the total specialty pool for that month.

This form of payment, which is similar to a case rate, is known as:

The Atoll Health Plan must comply with a number of laws that directly affect the plan's contracts. One of these laws allows Atoll's plan members to receive medical services from certain specialists without first being referred to those specialists by a primary care provider (PCP). This law, which reduces the PCP's ability to manage utilization of these specialists, is known as _________.