AHIP AHM-520 Exam

The Amethyst Health Plan uses a budgeting approach that requires each line of business within Amethyst's operation to justify its continued operation. Amethyst begins with the premise that no resources will be allocated for the following period unless each dollar to be spent is justified and is shown to be within departmental plans and corporate goals and objectives. The budgeting approach used by Amethyst is known as:

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The Jade Health Plan used a profitability index (PI) to rank the following capital proposals:

Proposal PI

A 0.45

B 1.05

This information indicates that, of these two projects, Jade would most likely select:

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In order to achieve its goal of improved customer service, the Evergreen Health Plan will add three new customer service representatives to its existing staff, install a new switching station, and install additional phone lines. In this situation, the cost that would be classified as a sunk cost, rather than a differential cost, is the expense associated with:

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In a comparison of small employer-employee groups to large employer-employee groups, it is correct to say that small employer-employee groups tend to:

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In order to achieve its goal of improved customer service, the Evergreen Health Plan will add three new customer service representatives to its existing staff, install a new switching station, and install additional phone lines. In this situation, the cost that would be classified as a sunk cost, rather than a differential cost, is the expense associated with:

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