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Health Insurance Chapter 14, 15

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This begins with the first day of hospitalization and ends when the patient has been out of the hospital for 60 consecutive days   benefit period  
May be used only once during a patient's lifetime and are usually reseved for use during the patient's final, terminal hospital stay (60 days)   lifetime reserve days  
Includes HMO's, PPO's, and PSO's though which a Medicare beneficiary may choose to receive health care coverage and services. Often provide a greater array of services and smaller copayment than conventional medicare   coordinated care plan  
A denial of otherwise covered services that were found to be not "reasonable and necessary"   medical necessity denial  
A plan that provides both medicare and medicaid coverage to certain eligible beneficiaries   medicare-medicaid crossover  
This helps individuals whose assets are not low enough to qualify them for medicaid by requiring states to pay their medicare part A and B premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts   qualified medicare beneficiary program (QMBP)  
Helps low-income individuals by requiring states to pay their Medicare part B premiums   qualifying individual (QI-1)  
Helps individuals who received social security and medicare because of disability, but who lost their social security benefits and free medicare part A because they returned to work and their earnings exceeded the limit allowed.   qualified disabled working individual (QDWI)  
Enables Medicare beneficiaries to participate in mass PPV and influenza virus vaccination programs offered by public health clinics (PHC) and other entities that bill medicare carriers   roster billing  
Helps low-income individuals by requiring states to pay their medicare part B premiums   specified low-income medicare beneficiary (SLMB)  
Some medicare literature uses this term in place of benefit period; formerly called spell of sickness   spell of illness  
This reimburses institutional providers for inpatient, hospice, and some home health services   medicare part A  
This reimburses institutional providers for outpatient services and physicians for inpatient and office services   medicare part B  
What is another name for medicare part A   medicare hospital insurance  
What is another name for medicare part B   medicare medical insurance  
What is another name for medicare part C   medicare advantage  
What is another name for medicare part D   medicare prescription durg plans  
Formerly called Medicare+Choice, includes managed care and private fee-for-service plans that provided contracted care to medicare patients   medicare part C  
This adds prescription drug coverage to the original medicare plan, some medicare cost plans, some medicare private fee-for-service plans and medicare medical savings account plans   medicare part D  
Which is a federal program administered by CMS?   medicare  
Medicare Part___ reimburses institutional providers for inpatient, hospice, and some home health services   part A  
Which is a characteristic of Medicare enrollment   eligible individuals are automatically enrolled, or they apply for coverage  
A Medicare benefit period is defined as beginning the first day of hospitalization and ending when:   the patient has been out of the hospital for 60 consecutive days  
Skilled nursing facility (SNF) inpatients who meet medicare's qualified diagnosis and comprehensive treatment plan requirements when they are admitted after a 3-day minimum acute hospital stay are required to pay the medicare rate during which period?   days 21-100  
The original medicare plan is also called medicare:   fee-for-service  
Medigap coverage is offered to medicare beneficiaries by   commercial payers  
Which has been banned as a result of legislation passed by some states?   balance billing  
Which is a written document provided to a medicare beneficiary by a provider prior to rendering a service that is unlikely to be reimbursed by medicare   advance beneficiary notice (ABN)  
Individuals who are entitled to medicare and eligible for some type of medicaid benefit are called:   dual eligibles  
Annual income guidelines established by the federal government   federal poverty level  
Provides medical and health-related services to certain individuals and families with low incomes and limited resources (the medically indigent)   medicaid  
Sometimes called Medicaid eligibility verification system (MEVS) allows providers to electronically access the state's eligibility file   recipient eligibility verification system (REVS)  
This makes cash assistance available, for limited time, for children deprived of support because of a partent's absence, death, incapacity, or unemployment   tempory assistnace for needy families (TANF)  
This allows states to create or expand existing insurance programs and provides more federal funds to states for the purpose of expanding medicaid eligibility to include a greater number of children who are currently uninsured   state childrens health insurance program (SCHIP)  
Medicaid is jointly funded by federal and state governments, and each state:   administers its own medicaid program  
How often do state legislatures change medicaid eligibility requirements?   during the year, sometimes more than once  
Medicare Part A coverage is available to individuals under the age of 65 who:   have a disability or end-stage renal disease  
Temporary hospitalization of a patient for the purpose of providing relief from duty for the nonpaid primary caregiver of a patient is called______care:   respite  
Medicare Part B will cover some home health care services if the patient:   is not eligible for medicare part A  
The maximum fee a nonPAR may charge for a covered service is called the:   limiting charge  


   


 

 

 
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