A business offers wellness incentives to its employees and then notices a decrease in the fre-quency of physician visits among employees. Which of the following terms best describes what has happened?
a. Macroeconomic theory
b. Efficiency
c. Supply and demand
d. Microeconomic theory
ANS: D
Microeconomic theory is examining the behaviors of individuals and organizations that result from trade-offs in utility and budget constraints of health care. Efficiency refers to producing maximum output using a given set of resources. Supply and demand are two basic principles of microeconomic theory. Macroeconomic theory focuses on the "big picture."
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