1970-1979
Federal program created in 1972 that provides monthly cash assistance to people who are disabled, blind, or elderly and have little income and few assets.
What is Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
This waiver extended Medicaid to:
Children with disabilities
Who would require institutional care but can be safely cared for at home
Parental ncome is not considered
At home care is not greater than institutional cost
What is The Katie Beckett Waiver
US safety net program for people with HIV that assists with outpatient HIV care, treatment, and support services
What is Ryan White
Young adults are able to stay on their parents’ health plans until this age as part of the ACA
What is 26
This 1986 federal law requires hospitals to provide emergency medical screening and stabilizing treatment, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
What is EMTALA?
This federal law sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. Also exempts self-insured employers from state health insurance regulations
What is Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
What AIDS acronym stands for
What is acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Led the White House Task Force on National Health Reform
Who is Hillary Clinton
Medicare Part D covers this
What are prescription Drug plans
A practice where companies are allowed to consider an individual's medical history or other personal info to help assess risk of healthcare needs in the future.
What is medical underwriting?
This report contained the following:
Respect for Persons-Autonomy and informed consent
Beneficence- People treated in an ethical manner
Justice-subjects are selected fairly and that the risks and benefits of research are distributed equitably
What is The Belmont Report
Year The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is renamed the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
What is 1980
Expanded health coverage of the uninsured children whose family incomes were too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford insurance.
What is The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Date the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency expired
What is May 11, 2023
Expanded through the ACA
What is Medicaid?
Created in 1977 to manage Medicare and Medicaid separately from the Social Security Administration and later called CMS.
What is The Health Care Financing Administration
1986 federal law that ensures hospitals that participate in the Medicare program to provide emergency care to screen and stabilize any person regardless if they can pay or not and to combat patient dumping.
What is The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
State with first Death With Dignity Act
What is Oregon
Date the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law
What is March 23, 2010
Amount paid each month for a health plan is called this
Premium
1979 Act that was signed into law, providing for a separation of departments of Health, Education, and Welfare
What is the The Department of Education Organization Act
OBRA 89 expands Medicaid to cover pregnant women and children under age 6 in families with incomes at or below this percent of the FPL
What is 133%
1996 law that has 4 main parts to protect patients: Privacy, security, patients' rights and notifications
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Gave incentives for health orgs and practitioners to use electronic health records (EHR) and strengthened the privacy and security provisions of HIPAA
What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)
What is an HMO?