Private Insurance
In this type of insurance, the provider charges a fee for each service performed.
What is Fee-for-Service?
This federally funded program was established in 1965 and is commonly associated with adults age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
What does ACA stand for?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This health-care approach focuses on keeping people healthy rather than waiting until they become sick.
What is prevention?
This is one of the biggest barriers to health care, accounting for 45% of those uninsured.
What is cost being too high?
This type of plan combines a health plan with a health savings account.
What is a Consumer-Directed Health Plan?
Which Medicare part is primarily hospital insurance?
What is Medicare Part A?
Under the ACA, young adults can stay on their parents' health insurance plans until this age.
What is 26?
This Medicare part includes coverage for nutritional therapy along with outpatient services, lab tests, and other services.
What is Medicare Part B?
By 2030, approximately what 21% of Americans will be what age or older?
65
Name two types of managed-care organizations.
What are HMO, PPO, POS, or EPO?
Which Medicare part covers prescription drugs?
What is Medicare Part D?
What opened in 2014 to allow people to purchase essential-benefit health plans?
What are health insurance marketplaces/exchanges?
Employee wellness and local obesity-prevention efforts are examples of this type of nutrition service.
What are public/community programs?
Name two health-care needs expected to increase as the population ages.
What are long-term care, medical care, medications, chronic-disease management, or coordinated prevention?
This plan allows patients to choose in-network or out-of-network providers, but patients generally pay less when staying in-network.
What is a PPO?
This government program is funded by both the federal and state governments.
What is Medicaid?
Beginning in 2014, states could expand Medicaid eligibility to approximately what percentage of the poverty line?
What is 138%?
Requiring chain restaurants to display nutrition information on their menus is an example of this consumer-focused strategy.
What is transparency?
Under the Prospective Payment System, hospital admissions are classified into these diagnosis-based groups.
What are Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)?
Unlike a PPO, this organization generally limits coverage to providers within its network.
What is an EPO?
This program was created for children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance.
What is the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
The ACA encouraged health care to move away from only treating disease and toward this approach.
What is prevention/health promotion?
An RD supports a policy that taxes sugary drinks because it may help prevent obesity, even though some people argue it limits individual choice. What two ethical principles are in conflict?
What are beneficence and autonomy?
A hospital encourages shorter hospital stays, use of generic medications, and lower-cost alternatives when appropriate. What major health-care problem are these strategies trying to address?
What are rising health-care costs?