Healthcare Basics
The federal agency responsible for administering Medicare and Medicaid in the US.
What is CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)?
The city where Healthfirst's headquarters is located.
What is New York City?
This role acts as a servant-leader for the agile team, facilitating ceremonies and removing blockers.
What is the scrum master?
The number of states when the USA first formed.
What is 13?
This AWS service provides virtual servers for running applications in the cloud.
What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
2 million.
What is the approximate number of members Healthfirst serves?
This is the average number of taste buds on the human tongue.
What is 10,000?
This is Scotland's national animal.
What is the unicorn?
The standard code set used to represent diagnoses in healthcare claims.
What is ICD (International Classification of Diseases)?
The number of walk-in offices does HealthFirst operates.
What is 7?
This item refers to a prioritized list of work items to be completed by the agile team.
What is the backlog?
This is the only state un the USA with a one-syllable name.
What is Maine?
This AWS service allows you to run serverless functions triggered by events or schedules.
What is AWS Lambda?
60,000
What is the number of pharmacies in the HF network?
This is the number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?
The Eiffel Tower does this in summer due to heat expansion.
What is grow taller?
In the US healthcare system, this professional is usually the first point of contact for patients needing medical care.
What is a primary care physician (PCP)?
Healthfirst offers this type of government-sponsored health insurance program for low-income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
This role ensures the team understand and delivers the highest priority items in the backlog.
What is the product owner?
This is the largest city by area in the Lower 48 states (excluding Alaska and Hawai'i).
What is Jacksonville, Fla.?
This tool allows you to run queries on S3 data using standard SQL.
What is Amazon Athena?
1993
What is the year Healthfirst was founded?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Pink flamingos are born this color, not pink.
What is grey?
This acronym refers to the document sent to patients, explaining what their insurance plan paid for and what the patient might owe after receiving care.
What is an EOB (Explanation of Benefits)?
This is the HF program designed for uninsured or low income New Yorkers.
What is the Essential Plan?
This construct aligns teams to a shared mission and vision, organizing them around value streams.
What is the Agile Release Train (ART)?
This is the last state admitted to the USA.
What is Hawai'i?
This AWS service provides a data warehousing solution for querying large datasets.
What is Amazon Redshift?
80+
How many hospitals are in Healthfirst's provider network?
This is the mineral is necessary to carry oxygen in human blood.
What is iron?
Polar bears have this color skin under their white fur.
What is black?
This term refers to the fixed amount a patient pays at the time of receiving a medical service, required by insurance plans.
What is a copay?
This is the program that supports seniors.
What is Medicare Advantage?
This agile event allows the team to reflect on their processes and identify improvements.
What is a retrospective?
This is the most populous state in the USA.
What is California?
This AWS service is used to define and manage infrastructure-as-code.
What is AWS CloudFormation?
400,000+
How many members are enrolled in our Essential Plan?
This vitamin is essential for healthy vision.
What is vitamin A?
This is the length of the shortest war in history.
What is 38 minutes? (Britain vs Zanzibar, 1896)
This term refers to the amount of money a patient must pay out-of-pocket each year before their health insurance starts covering costs.
What is a deductible?
Healthfirst offers this type of plan for children under age 19, regardless of household income.
What is Child Health Plus (CHP)?
This agile term describes a user-focused description of a feature or functionality with a benefit or value statement.
What is a user story?
This is the largest state in the USA.
What is Alaska?
This is the default region AWS uses if none is specified in your configuration.
What is us-east-1 (northern Virginia)?
12
How many counties in New York State does HF serve?
This controls how much light enters the eye.
What is the pupil?
This country hosts 60% of the world's wild tiger population.
What is India?
This model of care assigns a set amount per patient per month to healthcare providers, regardless of how many services the patient uses.
What is capitation?
Healthfirst's Medicare Advantage plans offer this benefit, allowing members to purchase health-related items.
What is the OTC (over-the-counter) card?
This agile term refers to a pre-defined, consistent time when team members check in on progress.
What is the daily standup or scrum?
The number of branches in the US federal government. (Bonus points if you can name them).
What is 3?
(Executive [President and agencies], Legislative [Congress], and Judicial [courts])
This AWS service runs event-driven workflows across multiple services.
What is AWS Step Functions?
6
How many languages doe HF support?
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur, or thighbone?
This is the world's longest railway.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway? (Over 9289 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok)