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The Walnut Health Plan Provides a Number of Specialty Services

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The Walnut Health Plan provides a number of specialty services for its members. Walnut offers coverage of alternative healthcare, including coverage of treatment methods such as homeopathy and naturopathy. Walnut also offers home healthcare services, and it contracts with home healthcare providers on a non-risk basis to the health plan. The following statements are about the specialty services offered by Walnut. Select the answer choice containing the correct statement:


A) Homeopathy treats diseases by using small doses of substances which, in healthy people, are capable of producing symptoms like those of the disease being treated.
B) Naturopathy is an approach to healthcare that uses electronic monitoring devices to teach a patient to develop conscious control of involuntary bodily functions, such as heart rate.
C) Under a non-risk contract, Walnut most likely transfers the responsibility for arranging home healthcare to the home healthcare provider organizations.
D) Federal law allows Walnut to contract with a home healthcare provider organization only if the provider organization has received accreditation by the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) .

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