History of Health Insurance
Initially designed to make cash payments to workers for wage lost due to job related injuries/disease.
What is workers compensation?
Evaluating a patients health, condition, diagnose abnormalities, and perscribing treatment.
What is a physician?
Who is a dentist?
Receive less than 2 years of postsecondary education and are trained to perform proceedures, require supervision from therapists or technologists.
Who are technicians/assistants?
What is patient-centered care?
Justin F. Kimball began a hospital insurance plan in 1929 at Baylor Univeristy Hospital.
What is the blue cross?
Emphasis on musculoskeletal system, stress preventive medicine, focus on patients aspects of lives' (diet and environmental factors)
What is osteopathic medicine?
Dispense medicine prescribed by physicians, dentists and podiatrists.
Who is a pharmacist?
Receive more advanced training in evaluating patients, diagnosing problems and developing treatment plans.
Who are technologists/therapists?
Include both socially oriented tasks of natural helpers and the clinical tasks of physician extenders. Public and primary care to their communities.
What is Community Health Workers?
Initially designed to pay physicians' fees in 1939.
What is the birth of blue shield?
Views treatment as an active intervention to produce counteracting reation to neutralize effects of disease.
What is allopathic medicine?
Who is a nurse?
An approach to primary care treatment, uses public health info about a population of people to identify interventions to improve the health of the population
What is COPC?
Ages 65+ or has special conditions/disabilities. Federally funded program. Participants pay deductibles and part of their coverage costs.
What is Medicare?
Trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
What is generalists?
Receive less advanced training than RNs, substitute for physicians but do not engage in full range of primary care.
Who is NPPs?
Provide leadership and strategic direction, work closely with boards and are responsible for the long-term success of an organization.
What is health service administers?
What is Medicaid?
dealing with particular diseases or organ systems.
Have educational and clinical experience beyond a registered nurse.
Who is an advanced practice nurse?
A health care team guded by a clinical primary care personnel provides continous, comprehensive and coordinated care in a cultuarally and linguistically sensitive manner through out patients lifetime.
What is PCMH?