ACMPE Article Assessment - Data Mine: COVID-19’s impact on the revenue cycle

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* 1. Physician-owned practices reported median adjusted fee-for-service (FFS) charges per full-time-equivalent (FTE) physician in 2020 were at far lower levels than what was reported in 2018 and 2019.

True

False

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* 2. Which of the following government support programs was referenced in the article as having helped businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis?

The Employee Retention Credit

The CARES Act

The Paycheck Protection Program

The American Rescue Plan

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* 3. For both physician-owned and hospital-owned practices, the data reported for ____________showed a full recovery from the minor disruption in revenue cycle performance during the height of the pandemic.

2020 operations

2021 collections

2020 collections

2021 operations

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* 4. For 2020, which of the following data elements is represented as the revenue cycle performance for hospital-owned multispecialty groups with primary and specialty care, under the metric Median bad debt due to FFS activity per FTE physician?

$16,473

$16,095

$20,476

$20,020

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* 5. Examining the five-year trends for operations and revenue cycle performance, hospital systems experienced the pandemic differently than physician-owned practices and appear to have recovered more quickly.

True

False

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* 6. Since MGMA surveys have __________ definitions and data collection methods year to year, the report provides an excellent view of the changes in practice performance over time.

Clear

Extensional

Functional

Identical