Match the term with the appropriate definition or description.
A. Type of award given in malpractice lawsuits
B. In 1932, expressed the same cost-access-quality concerns as we are addressing today
C. Results in higher production costs for the provider of services; may stem from new technology, increased wages of health care personnel, duplication of medical services, unionization or threat of unionization, and inappropriate use of medical care such as defensive medicine and inexperienced providers using services inefficiently
D. The gap between government revenues and government expenditures in a fiscal year
E. Emphasize patient-centered care and clinical outcomes to help rein in costs
F. Managed care plan of insurance in which range of coverage is based on a group, not individuals
G. Occurs when consumer's willingness to purchase services is greater than the supply offered
H. The value of all of the goods and services produced in the United States
I. Organization of 30 countries who believe strongly in a free market system
J. The improper treatment of patients by physicians and other providers
K. When there are more hospital beds, there are more patients to fill those beds and therefore reimbursement for providers
L. Used by prospective payment system method of payment to reimburse hospitals based on the primary diagnosis of the patients
M. Services patients receive and the costs of those services are more a function of the region of the country in which they live than the services they actually need
N. The accumulation of yearly U.S. deficits
A. "pain and suffering"
B. Final Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
C. cost-push inflation
D. yearly deficit
E. quality improvement (QI) initiatives
F. health maintenance organization (HMO)
G. demand-pull inflation
H. gross domestic product (GDP)
I. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
J. medical malpractice
K. Roemer's law
L. diagnosis related groups (DRGs)
M. regional variation in health care costs
N. national debt
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