The amount of money you must pay for your own healthcare before your insurance company begins contributing.
What is an insurance deductible?
The federal organization responsible for food and drug safety.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
A federal health insurance plan designed primarily for retirees.
What is Medicare?
The doctor who was responsible for reducing maternal mortality rates in the Vienna General Hospital by 98% in 1847.
Who is Ignaz Semmelweis?
The first female Nobel Prize winner, famous for her work with radioactive materials.
Who is Marie Curie?
The monthly payment made in exchange for a health insurance policy.
What are health insurance premiums?
The federal organization tasked with understanding and preventing epidemics of disease in the United States.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
A federal health insurance plan, administered by the states, generally intended for low-income households and those with permanent disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
Considered the father of antiseptic surgery, a British doctor who insisted on sterilization of surgical instruments and handwashing.
Who is Joseph Lister?
The most famous nurse in history, responsible for establishing the nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The money paid at time-of-service for each doctor's visit, regardless of the venue.
What is a copayment?
A type of health insurance that attempts to manage costs by reviewing all requests for treatment and referrals from your primary care doctor.
What is an HMO (Healthcare Management Organization)?
The federal organization established in the 1700s tasked with promoting public health in the United States.
What is the US Public Health Service?
The developer of the first vaccine (smallpox), who additionally developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
The amount of money you are responsible for paying AFTER the insurance has paid their share.
What is coinsurance?
A type of health insurance that allows you to pick from a large list of preferred providers.
What is a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)?
A federal organization tasked with performing and funding medical research in the United States.
What are the National Institutes of Health?
A microorganism that is responsible for causing disease.
What is a pathogen?
The founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Assuming you've met your deductible for the year, the out-of-pocket cost of an ER visit totaling $1000 with a copay of $100.
What is $300?
A federal entity that is responsible for ensuring the physical welfare of employees in the workplace.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
An international organization tasked with setting guidelines for best practices and goals for public health worldwide.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This is the practice of cleaning visible soil from an object or surface.
What is sanitization?
The researcher whose work helped lead to the discovery of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?