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Type of Healthcare
Type of Healthcare systems
| 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 |
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