Health Care Financing
This policy, enacted in 2014 as part of the ACA, requires that every single American has health insurance.
What is the Individual Mandate?
This is the most common type of hospital in the US
What is a Non-Profit Community Hospital?
Care focusing on comfort, dignity, and quality of life for patients with terminal illnesses, rather than curing the disease.
What is Hospice Care?
A government policy that moved mental health patients out of state-run "insane asylums" into federally funded community mental health centers.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
The amount of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that accounted for healthcare spending
What is 17.6%
1) lower costs, (2) better outcomes, (3) improved provider experience, and (4) improved patient experience
What is the Quadruple Aim?
Federal law requires hospitals to treat and stabilize anyone who seeks care in the ED, regardless of cost or ability to pay
What is EMTALA?
The legal frameworks that allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults to end their lives on their own terms
What is Death with Dignity?
Race, Stigma, Cost, Geography, Lack of Providers
What are barriers to mental health treatment?
A healthcare system where all residents have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, and without financial hardship
What is Universal Health Care?
Deductibles, co-pays, and premiums
What are types of patient cost-sharing?
Urgent Care Centers, Retail Clinics, Outpatient Surgical Centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Emergency Rooms
What are Ambulatory Care Facilities?
Which insurance program covers most long-term care services in the United States?
What is Medicaid?
The Purdue Pharma drug that is often cited as the origin of the opioid epidemic
What is OxyContin?
Hospital that serves a significantly higher number of low-income patients and receives payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services to cover the costs of providing care to uninsured patients
What is a Disproportionate Share Hospital?
This insurance type requires a referral for specialists and only covers in-network providers.
What is an HMO?
This care model provides continuous, coordinated, team-based care throughout a patient’s lifetime.
What is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)?
A written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor
What is an Advance Directive?
Methadone, Suboxone, Naltrexone
What are medications for opioid treatment?
In the 1920s, this Dallas hospital created a prepaid insurance plan for local teachers — a pioneering idea that became the model for Blue Cross and the foundation of employer-based health insurance in the U.S.
What is Baylor University Hospital?
The U.S. healthcare system is often described as having all four models represented. This one describes working Americans with employer insurance
What is the Bismarck model?
This model of care brings together groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to coordinate care, improve quality, and reduce costs for a defined patient population.
What is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)?
An end-of-life decision making standard asking what the patient would have wanted if they could make the choice themselves.
What is Substituted Judgement?
Requiring insurance coverage for mental health services to be equal to coverage for physical health services
What is Mental Health Parity?
The highest level of patient involvement in the Continuum of Engagement Framework