AHIP AHM-520 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

A health plan can use a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis to analyze its relationships with the major providers in each market in which it conducts business.

An actuary for the Noble Health Plan observed that the plan's actual morbidity was lower than its assumed morbidity and that the plan's actual administrative expenses were higher than its assumed administrative expenses. In this situation, Noble's actual underwriting margin was

The following statements are about federal laws and regulations which affect health plans that offer products and services to the employer group market. Select the answer choice containing the correct statement.

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:

The following statements illustrate the use of different rating methods by health plans:
- The Dover health plan established rates for small groups by using a rating method which requires that the average premium in each group cannot be more than 120% of the average premium for any other group. Under this method, all members of each group pay the same premium, which is based on the experience of the group.
- Under the rating method used by the Rolling Hills health plan, the health plan calculates the ratio of a group's experience to the group's historical manual rate. Rolling Hills then multiplies this ratio by the group's future manual rate. Rolling Hills cannot consider the group's experience in determining premium rates.
From the following answer choices, select the response that correctly indicates the rating methods used by Dover and Rolling Hills.

The Acorn Health Plan uses a resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) to help determine the reimbursement amounts that Acorn should make to providers who are compensated under an FFS system. With regard to the advantages and disadvantages to Acorn of using RBRVS, it can correctly be stated that

Under GAAP, three approaches to expense recognition are generally allowed: associating cause and effect, systematic and rational allocation, and immediate recognition. A health plan most likely would use the approach of systematic and rational allocation in order to

The Chamber Health Plan reimburses primary care physicians on a monthly basis by using a simple capitation method. Chamber assumes an annual utilization rate of three visits per year. The FFS rate per office visit is $75, and all plan members are required to make a $10 copayment for each office visit. This information indicates that the capitation rate that Chamber calculates per member per month (PMPM) is equal to:

Doctors' Care is an individual practice association (IPA) under contract to the Jasper Health Plan to provide primary and secondary care to Jasper's members. Jasper's capitation payments compensate Doctors' Care for all physician services and associated diagnostic tests and laboratory work. The physicians at Doctors' Care, as a group, determine how individual physicians in the group will be remunerated. The type of capitation used by Jasper to compensate Doctors' Care is known as:

If the operational budget prepared by the Satilla health plan is typical of most operational budgets, then