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A fixed amount (for example, $15) paid for a covered healthcare service, usually when service is provided; amount varies depending on type of health insurance a person has
What is Copayment
A form of government insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits for employees injured at work.
What is Worker's Compensation
The use of medicine that contain weakened or dead bacteria or viruses to build immunity and prevent disease.
What is Vaccination
Refers to an individual's ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate, or assert his or her own interests, desires, needs and rights.
What is Self-advocacy
The process of isolating people who have been exposed to infectious or contagious disease.
Health insurance organizations that contract with a network of preferred providers from which the policyholder can choose; often involves an annual deductible payment for service, but patients do not have a designated primary care physician and may self-refer to specialists.
What is Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
Passed into law in 2010 for a major regulatory overhaul of US healthcare; also called Obamacare
What is Affordable Care Act (ACA)
The amount you owe for covered healthcare services before your health insurance plan begins to pay.
What is Deductible
Managed care organizations that provide prepaid, comprehensive healthcare at a flat rate and for a fixed period of time through a network of participating healthcare professionals and hospitals; policyholders select a primary care physician (PCP) and referrals from the PCP must be obtained to see a specialist.
What is Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO)
The loss of feeling with or without the loss of consciousness.
What is Anesthesia
A division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that focuses on disease outbreaks and prevention in the United States.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
A government agency that regulates products in the food and drug industries and develops nutrition facts labels to help consumers make informed food choices.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A method of analyzing and treating mental and emotional disorders through sessions in which the patient is encouraged to talk about personal experience and dreams.
What is Psychoanlysis
A promise of professional behavior made by doctors beginning their careers; promises ethical and honest practice of the medical profession.
What is the Hippocratic Oath
The amount an insured person pays to his or her insurance company to maintain coverage.
Premium
A general term for any healthcare plan that emphasizes wellness and provides healthcare through a network of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers.
What is Managed Care
A government agency that creates regulation to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
A division of the Department of Health and Human Services that conducts research and provides information to promote and improve public health through 27 different agencies.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
A program jointly funded by state and federal taxes that provides medical aid for low-income individuals of all ages; managed by the states.
What is Medicaid
An agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)
Drugs that slow the growth of, or destroy bacteria; used to treat infections.
An emblem of medicine in the Untied States
What is Caduceus
An outbreak of a disease that affects many people and spread rapidly.
What is an epidemic
A branch of medicine that studies a person's DNA sequences, which carry genetic information.
What is Genomic Medicine
A type of care designed to relieve pain and reduce suffering in terminally ill patients.
What is Hospice