History of Health Insurance
The first broad-coverage health insurance
What is Worker's Compensation?
Evaluates health conditions, diagnoses abnormalities, and prescribes treatment
What is a Physician?
Number of Physicians that come together to form a faculty
What is 4(or more)?
By the 1960s, this concept was brought to life
What is Community mental health?
Ways in which health care delivery became the domain of large organizations
What is Corporatization?
Event that set the stage for innovating health insurance
What is the Great Depression?
Involved in inpatient medicine, roles parallel those of primary care physicians
What are Hospitalists?
Early practice of medicine was regarded as this rather than a profession
What is a trade?
Played a huge role in protecting the interests of physicians
Who is the AMA (American Medical Association)?
Health care information and services offered over the internet by professionals and nonprofessionals
What is E-health?
Became the model of the Blue Cross plans
What is Kimball's hospital insurance plan?
Major provider of dental care
What are Dentists?
What is anesthesia?
Transformation occurred after this event
What is the American Civil War?
These 2 corporatized the delivery of health care in the US
What are the MCOs and IDSs?
Started the first Blue Shield plan
What is the California Medical Association?
Dispenses medicine
What are Pharmacists?
Institution operated by local governments to isolate those who contracted contagious diseases
Around this year medical schools began associating with universities
When was 1870?
Time period of the Corporate Era in Health Care
When was the 20th to 21st century?
Opposed National Health Care
Who is the AMA?
Treat those with deformities of the feet
What are Podiatrists?
Provided basic care to those who could not afford to pay
What are Dispensaries?
Established to prepare black physicians to practice medicine
What is the Howard University School of Medicine and/or the Meharry Medical College?
Came to the forefront in the 90s with advances in the distant transmission of image data
What is Telemedicine?