Paying Health Care Providers
The physician or hospital is paid for each office visit or other service or supply provided.
What is fee-for-service?
Graduate medical education in a specialty that takes the form of paid on-the-job training.
What is residency?
This type of care involves common health problems and preventive measures.
What is primary care?
The practical application of scientific knowledge to improve people's health and to create efficiencies in the delivery of medical care.
This is the obligation to care for patients to the best of one's ability.
What is beneficence?
One payment is made for each patient's care during a month or a year.
What is capitation?
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When using an in-text citation to cite an article with two authors, what symbol is used to separate the authors?
What is an ampersand?
This is when primary care physicians provide care to a patient over time.
What is longitudinality?
These have replaced traditional paper medical records.
What are electronic health records (EHRs)?
This is the right of a person to choose and follow his or her own plan of life and action.
What is autonomy?
The physician or hospital is paid one sum for all services delivered during one illness.
What is payment by episode of illness?
This type of dentist makes artificial teeth or dentures
What is a prosthodontist?
This term represents better patient experiences, better patient outcomes, and lower costs.
What is "triple aim"?
This refers to all forms of electronic health care delivery over the Internet.
What is e-health?
This requires all people to equally receive a reasonable level of medical services based on medical need without regard to ability to pay.
What is distributive justice?
The hospital is paid for all services delivered to a patient during 1 day.
What is per diem payments to hospitals?
This is the largest group of health care professionals.
What are nurses?
This term is used to refer to PCPs "shutting the gate" in order to limit specialist referrals, diagnostic tests, and other services.
What is gatekeeper?
This employs telecommunications technology for medical diagnosis and patient care when the provider and client are separated by distance.
What is telemedicine?
In 2015, this woman made national headlines for being in a vegetative state.
Who is Terri Schiavo?
This intermediary group that receives payments from health plans and then provides payments to the primary physician.
What is the Independent Practice Association (IPA)?
This field consists of the five core disciplines such as biostatistics, epidemiology, health services administration, health education/behavioral science, and environmental health.
What is public health?
This involves the management of rare disorders.
What is tertiary care?
This agency is responsible for ensuring that drugs and medical devices are safe and effective for their intended use.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This is the conscious policy of equitably distributing needed resources that are in limited supply.
What is rationing?