Types of Insurance
PPO stands for:
Preferred Provider Organization
Place where people can have testing on various body fluids
laboratory
Prepares patient to return home
Extended care facility
Low income, physically disabled, blind or current receiving public assistance
medicaid
A counseling center is what type of facility?
Mental health
HMO stands for:
Health Maintenance Organization
Facility that sees patients for a specific/chronic illness and they are there for long periods of time
Specialty hospital
Facility that offers 24/7 care for chronic illnesses
Long-term care facility
65 or over or disabled
medicare
If a patient is on hospice, how many months are they expected to live?
6 or less
Military insurance
Tricare
Facility that can perform examinations, treatments, diagnose patients and prescribe medications
medical office
provides services, research and education
University Medical Center
active or retired duty, family or survivors
tricare
What are patients called when they live in a long term care facility?
Residents
Government Insurance
Medicaid, Medicare
Facility that offers a wide range of services including emergency services, childbirth, surgical procedures and misc. diagnostic care
General hospital
Diagnoses eye disorders, performs vision exams and prescribes glasses/contacts
optical center
managed care network means:
approval for services
Extended care acts as a ______ between hospital and home
bridge
S.C.H.I.P. example
N.C. Health Choice
Facility operated on a federal, state or local level
Government hospital
Home care for terminally ill individuals
hospice
HMO focuses on what type of care?
preventative
Offered from larger companies/industries
Industrial Health Care Center