The following statements are about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as it relates to the small group market. Three of these statements are true and one statement is false. Select the answer choice containing the FALSE statement.

If the Ascot health plan's accountants follow the going-concern concept under GAAP, then these accountants most likely:

Users of the Fulcrum Health Plan financial information include:

The independent auditors who review Fulcrum's financial statements

Fulcrum's controller (comptroller)

Fulcrum's plan members -

The providers that deliver healthcare services to Fulcrum plan members

Fulcrum's competitors -

Of these users, the ones that most likely can correctly be classified as external users with a direct financial interest in Fulcrum are the:

The Atoll Health Plan must comply with a number of laws that directly affect the plan's contracts. One of these laws allows Atoll's plan members to receive medical services from certain specialists without first being referred to those specialists by a primary care provider (PCP). This law, which reduces the PCP's ability to manage utilization of these specialists, is known as _________.

In the following paragraph, a sentence contains two pairs of words enclosed in parentheses. Determine which word in each pair correctly completes the sentence. Then select the answer choice containing the two words that you have selected.

Budgeting approaches can be classified as static or flexible budgets, or as rolling or period budgets. A health plan most likely would use a (static / flexible) budget when a budget's objective is to reduce or limit expenses, and the health plan most likely would use a (rolling / period) budget if it would like to continually maintain projections for a certain time period into the future.