Which of the following is one of the three major factors driving rising health care costs and expenditures?

How does aspirin actually reduce the chances that a patient suffering a heart attack will die?

A) It reduces the ability of the blood to form clots. B) It reduces the amount of pain in the heart. C) It prevents a deadly fever from developing. D) It reduces the inflammation in the heart.

Which of the following defines a "midlevel practitioner"?

A. A 38-chapter compendium of guidelines for reporting healthcare claims; maintained and updated by CMS B. A qualified healthcare professional who is not a physician but who is authorized to practice medicine, is licensed and registered with the state in which he or she practices medicine, and is authorized to prescribe controlled substances during the management and treatment of a patient; also called a midlevel practitioner C. a national organization composed of multidisciplinary volunteers dedicated to providing authoritative guidance on the standards for content and data for noninstitutional healthcare claims; maintains and updates the CMS-1500 claim form D. a set of guidelines developed in 1996 intended to reduce incorrect coding and improper overpayments or underpayments through the identification of codes that may or may not be utilized together or that are medically unlikely