Who said that?
Passed in 1935 this bill only contained only one reference to health insurance.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
This required extensive changes to the Medicare program in an attempt to control the rising cost of providing healthcare services to Medicare beneficiaries.
What is the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
This is the most significant healthcare reform legislation of the first decade of the 21st century.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The year that health insurance portability and accountability act was passed.
What is 1996
A physician that specializes in the care of inpatient hospital patients.
What is a hospitalist
In 1977 this made it a requirement for hospitals to conduct continued stay reviews for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
What is the Utilization Act of 1977
Until World War II most healthcare was provided here.
What is in the home
Peer review organizations were given a new name in 2002 and are now called this.
What is Quality Improvement Organizations?
This provision of HIPAA was created to combat fraud and abuse in health insurance and healthcare delivery.
What is the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Databank
This group represents that largest number of healthcare professionals (around four million)
What are nurses
This also known as Title XVIII is a federal program that provides health insurance benefits for people aged 65 and older who are covered by Social Security
What is Medicare?
Before the Great Depression, medical care for the poor and elderly had been handled as a function of this.
What are social welfare agencies
The purpose of this is to inform federal and state agencies about potential quality problems with clinicians, suppliers and providers of healthcare services.
What is the HIPDB
This addresses the issues related to the portability of health information after leaving employment, establishment of national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and national patient identifiers for providers.
What is HIPAA
This healthcare professional is licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision.
What is a Physician Assistant?
This required concurrent review for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
What is Public Law 92-603
According to the publication To Error is Human, this many patients die each year from preventable medical mistakes.
What is 98,000 people
This, created in 2010 from the passage of the ACA is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization mandated to improve the quality and applicability of evidence available to help all stakeholders make knowledgeable healthcare decisions.
What is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
This act allocated funds for the implementation of a nationwide health information exchange and implementation of electronic health records.
What is HITECH
Healthcare systems that combine the financial and clinical aspects of healthcare and use a group of healthcare providers, selected on the basis of quality and cost management criteria, to furnish comprehensive services across a continuum of care.
What is integrated delivery systems?
This law created the HITECH Act.
What is the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The goal of this organization/initiative is to create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
What is Healthy People 2020
Four major components of this bill include: Meaningful use; EHR standards and certifications; regional extension centers; and breach notification guidance.
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
This required the government to take a leadership role in developing standards for exchange of health information nationwide, strengthen federal privacy and security standards and established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
What is the ARRA
The type of healthcare organization that delivers medical care and manages all aspects of patient care or the payment for care by limiting providers of care, discounting payments or limiting access to care.
What are managed care organizations?