Question

1) True or false? Managed care is a new approach to financing health care with origins in the 1990s.

2) True or false? The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has provided funding for quality improvement efforts in the U.S.

3) True or false? Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is designed to identify an individual who can be held accountable for a lapse in quality.

4) True or false? Plan-Do-Check-Act is a new quality improvement strategy not related to DMAIC.

5) True or false? A Just Culture is designed to ensure that the medical-legal requirements of a hospital’s reporting system are met.

6)True or false? Health plans and other payers are in the best position to improve quality of care in the health care industry.

Answer 1

We are instructed to provide 4 parts to any given question, please do not downvote the answer for that reason.

The answer to the following questions is:-

1. False

Managed care is not a new approach and had been in effect from the 1980’s after the healthcare act of 1973.

2. True

The Agency for healthcare research and quality provides funding for quality improvements in the US.

3. True

RCA is used to find the real reason behind the non-conformance of a system, it can help pinpoint the process as well as any individuals responsible for the non-conformance.

4. True

This is because PDCA caters towards lean while DMAIC can be considered as a six sigma technique.