Answer true and false questions

J 3) Indicate by circling either T or F whether you believe the following statements are true or false. {All ll] questions have unambiguous correct answers] a) Research on cost trends suggests that any savings achieved by HMOs and other MCDs are short lived T F b] The \"sentinel effect" ofutiliaation review suggests that doctors change their behavior if they are subjected to third party oversight T F c) Theory and evidence suggest that larger medical groups do a betterjob than smaller groups of instilling incentives for member productivity T F d] Paying a provider sr performing task \"t" without also paying for task \"B" invariabl; leads to a reduction in the level of task \"B" T F e) Scanlon et al.'s study of General Motors' employee responses to HMO report cards found that I-Ilvls with superior performance gained market share relative to plans with merely average perormance. T F t) An analysis using Chamberlin's model of monopolistic competition suggests that increased use of selective contracting will lead to continuous reductions in provider prices T F g) Federal antitrust agencies lost recent challenges to hospital mergers because they failed to demonstrate that hospitals competed in narrow geographic markets T F b) The theory of monopsony predicts that an insurer with monopsony power would assemble a smaller network of providers than one lacking power T F i) The economic model of cost shifting predicts that a reduction in the rate paid by a government insurer will lead to an increase in utilization by privately insured patients T F j) The tart exemption ganted to health savings accounts levels the tax playing eld between consumer directed health plans and other inexpensive health plans such as HMDsT F