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1. In what year did a Presidential health task force first recommend that the Medicare program cover outpatient prescription drugs?

  1. 1963
  2. 1969
  3. 1986
  4. 1993

2. When Medicare began, what sort of efforts did hospitals and nursing homes need to make to integrate their facilities for black and white patients?

  1. A good faith effort
  2. All deliberate speed
  3. Integration was required before participation in the program could begin
  4. File for exemption

3. What agency originally administered Medicare?

  1. HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration)
  2. CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
  3. SSA (Social Security Administration)
  4. SRS (Social and Rehabilitative Service)

4. What agency originally administered Medicaid?

  1. HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration)
  2. CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
  3. SSA (Social Security Administration)
  4. SRS (Social and Rehabilitative Service)

5. Which Secretary established the Health Care Financing Administration?

  1. Secretary Califano
  2. Secretary Cohen
  3. Secretary Sullivan
  4. Secretary Thompson

6. In what year was HCFA established?

  1. 1965
  2. 1977
  3. 1992
  4. none of the above

7. What was the purpose of joining Medicare and Medicaid together in the Health Care Financing Administration?

  1. Move away from a two-class system of health care
  2. Get the administrative capacity in hand and in order, ready for national health insurance
  3. Improve staffing and management of Medicaid
  4. All of the above

8. President Johnson's Medicare proposal would have covered physician services.

  1. True
  2. False

9. President Reagan proposed adding what benefits to Medicare?

  1. Unlimited hospital days
  2. A limit on beneficiary out-of-pocket expenses
  3. Expanded nursing home coverage
  4. All of the above.

10. In 1965, what was the three-layer cake?

  1. Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, Medicaid
  2. Medicare, Medicaid, SSI
  3. Social Security, private pensions, and retirement savings
  4. Neapolitan

11. Maternal and child health services were first added to the Social Security Act in which year?

  1. 1935
  2. 1965
  3. 1980
  4. 1997

12. Which President signed into law the extension of Medicare to the disabled and those with end-stage renal disease?

  1. President Johnson
  2. President Nixon
  3. President Carter
  4. President Reagan

13. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt included national health insurance in his proposed Social Security legislation.

  1. True
  2. False

14. Which President thought that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) would help contain the growth in health care spending?

  1. President Nixon
  2. President Reagan
  3. President Clinton
  4. All of the above

15. Who received the very first Medicare card?

  1. President Eisenhower
  2. President Roosevelt
  3. President Truman
  4. President Nixon

16. The Health Care Financing Administration was renamed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the summer of 2001 by:

  1. Secretary Sullivan
  2. Secretary Shalala
  3. Secretary Thompson
  4. Secretary Califano

17. In what year did HMO's begin their participation in the Medicare program?

  1. 1966
  2. 1972
  3. 1982
  4. 1997

18. Federal law first defined HMOs for the commercial sector.

  1. True
  2. False

19. Home and community-based care waivers in the Medicaid program were enacted into law in:

  1. 1972
  2. 1981
  3. 1990
  4. 1997

20. Medicaid eligibility was tied to eligibility for Aid to Families with Dependent Children program until what happened?

  1. AFDC was replaced by TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) in the welfare reform law of 1996
  2. President Nixon abolished AFDC and replaced it with a negative income tax in 1972
  3. People turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare
  4. All of the above

21. The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 was enacted in part due to reports about women dying of cervical cancer after their pap smear tests were not evaluated properly.

  1. True
  2. False

22. Medicaid was expanded to cover additional low-income pregnant women and children in:
  1. 1986
  2. 1988
  3. 1989
  4. All of the above

23. Nursing home quality standards were improved by Congress in 1987 as a result of:

  1. An Institute of Medicine study calling for enhanced Federal standards
  2. Concern about mentally ill individuals not receiving active treatment
  3. Excessive use of physical and chemical restraints in nursing home patients
  4. All of the above

24. Why is CMS located in Baltimore instead of Washington ?

  1. The Social Security Administration is located in Baltimore
  2. Not enough office space in Washington
  3. Most CMS employees live in Baltimore
  4. Medicaid was first located in Baltimore

25. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to:

  1. Provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor
  2. Establish the Head Start program
  3. Establish the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
  4. Beautify our highways

26. The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program:

  1. Is a benefit for all Medicaid children
  2. Focuses on hearing loss
  3. Expanded Medicaid to include pregnant women
  4. None of the above

27. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA):

  1. Created the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  2. Established new health plan options for Medicare beneficiaries
  3. Reduced the rate of growth in Medicare spending
  4. All of the above

28. Before Medicaid, Federal grants to States for medical care programs for aged people not on public assistance but unable to pay for needed medical services was provided under a program called:

  1. Kerr-Mills
  2. Truman-Capote
  3. Nixon-Goldwater
  4. Kennedy-Johnson

29. When the Medicare program was established, the Part B premium was set to cover what percentage of the Part B program's cost?

  1. 25%
  2. 50%
  3. 75%
  4. 100%.

30. How many Medicare claims for physician, hospital and other services are paid every year?

  1. About 1 million
  2. About 1 billion
  3. About 1 trillion
  4. None of the above.

31. Medicare covers preventive services such as testing for prostate cancer, flu and pneumonia shots, mammograms, and bone density scans.
  1. True
  2. False

32. In the Medicare program, what does DRG stand for?
  1. Diagnosis-Related Group
  2. Differential Regional Geography
  3. Disease Registry Graph
  4. Doctors and Relatives Group




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