AHIP Exam AHM-250 Topic 5 Question 84 Discussion

Actual exam question for AHIP's AHM-250 exam

Question #: 84
Topic #: 5

The scandent Health Group contracted with the Empire Corporation to provide behavioral healthcare services to.

Empire employees. As a condition of providing behavioral healthcare services, scandent required Empire to contract with scandent for basic medical services scandent's actions constituted the type of antitrust violation known as a

AHorizontal group boycott

BPrice-fixing agreement

CHorizontal division of markets

DTying arrangement

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by Devorah at Apr 10, 2024, 03:33 PM

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Alaine

7 days ago

Haha, you guys are really overthinking this. It's obviously a price-fixing agreement. Scandent is forcing Empire to pay a certain price for their services, right? That's classic price-fixing.

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Nicholle

9 days ago

Hmm, I don't know. I was thinking it might be a horizontal group boycott, where Scandent is coordinating with other healthcare providers to exclude Empire from the market. But the tying arrangement makes more sense to me.

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Angelo

10 days ago

I think you're on the right track, Avery. A tying arrangement is when a company with market power in one product forces customers to also buy a second, separate product. That seems to fit the scenario here.

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Avery

11 days ago

Okay, let's break this down. Scandent required Empire to contract with them for basic medical services in order to receive their behavioral healthcare services. This sounds like a 'tying arrangement', where a company requires a customer to purchase one product or service in order to get another.

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Jettie

13 days ago

Yeah, I agree. This question seems to be testing our knowledge of different types of antitrust violations. From what I can tell, the scenario involves some sort of exclusionary practice by Scandent Health Group.

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Jacqueline

15 days ago

Hmm, this is an interesting question. I'm not sure what the correct answer is, but I'll give it my best shot. I think the key here is to understand the concept of an antitrust violation and how it applies to this specific scenario.

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