Question | Answer |
Private healthcare facilities | require fee for service |
government agencies | tax supported |
voluntary or nonprofirt agencies | supported by grants or donations |
inpatient facilities | hospitals, long-term care |
outpatient clinics | clinics, provider offices |
speciality services | laboratories, mental health |
types of hospitals | private, profit, religious, non profit, government, speciality |
Long term care facitilty | nursing or geriatric homes |
Medical Offices | private or independant owned servies: treatment exam lab tests and minor surgury |
Clinics | Dental offices, optical centers |
Emergency Care Services | life threating or sudden illness |
laboratories | perform diagnostic procedures. |
Home Health | provide servies at home |
Hospice Heathcare | provide care for terminally ill |
Mental healthcare facility | treatment of mental disorders, chemical abuse treatment |
Rehabilitation facitlities | provide care to assit with physical and mental disabilities |
Health maintenance organizations | focus on prevention on preventative health care |
Industrial health care centers | found in large industries |
State and local Departments | provide immunization for travel infor, food inspections |
US Department of Health and Human Service | goverment agency that deals with US health problems |
Food & Drug Adminstration | responsible for regulating food/drug products |
Center for Disease Control and Prevention | concerned with cause/spred of disease |
OSHA | establich and enforce standares that protect workers |
Types of Insurance Organizations | Health maintance organization, preferred provider organization |
HMO | health maintenance organizations |
PPO | preferred provider organizations |
mangaged care | developed in response to rising health care costs |
preffered provider | restricts participants to certain providers that are contracted to provide care costs. |
deductible | amount that must be paid by patient for medical servies before policy begins to pay |
co-insurance | specific percentage of expense shared by patient and insurance |
co-payment | specific amount of money a patient pays for service |
premium | amount paid to the insurance |
decutable | amount of tax that must be paid by the patient |
HMO | preventive care, early detection and treatment, use only their providers |
PPO | lower rate, doesn't have to be within network |
Medicare | government health plan for those 65 and olde |
Medicaid | welfare recipients, people who are physically disabled. |
workers compensation | treatment for workers injured on the job |
CHAMPUS care | military dependants |
organizational structure | line of authority or chain of command, indicates areas, structure, efficient operation |
Trends | changes in healthcare occur rapidly |
current issues | cost containment, home health care, geriatric care, telemedicine, wellness, alternative and complimentary healthcare, national health care plans |
Diagnostic related groups | congress cost control for medicare/medicaid. |
telemedicine | use of audio, video, and computers to provide health care from a distance |
Omnibus budget Reconclation Act of 1987 | Federal law regarding long term care & home health |
Obra | Federal loaw regarding long-term care and home health care |
Holistic Health | treat whole body, mind and spirit |