Care Settings 101
Care provided without hospital admission
What is ambulatory care?
These clinics often provide checkups and treatment of common illnesses.
What are free clinics?
Care focused on helping patients recover and return home.
What is short-term or transitional care?
Two major ways to finance healthcare services.
What are fee-for-service and capitation?
This law expanded access to health insurance in the U.S
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Short-term, intensive care for serious conditions, usually in hospitals.
What is acute care?
Free clinics mainly serve this population.
Who are underserved or uninsured individuals?
Facilities that provide rehab and assistance with ADLs after illness or surgery
What are long-term care facilities?
Providers are paid for each service they perform under this model.
What is fee-for-service?
The ACA prohibits denying coverage for this reason.
What are preexisting conditions?
This type of clinic provides care to uninsured or low-income individuals.
What is a free clinic?
Care delivered in free clinics is usually this type.
What is outpatient care?
This level of care provides medically necessary skilled services.
What is a skilled nursing facility?
An alternative to fee-for-service where providers are paid per patient.
What is capitation?
A key goal of the ACA related to prevention.
What is increased access to preventive care?
A key cost difference between ambulatory and acute care
What is ambulatory care being less expensive?
One way free clinics improve public health.
What is increasing access to care?
The goal of short-term care.
What is discharge to home or a lower level of care?
Once a deductible is met, this determines the percentage the client pays
What is coinsurance?
The ACA created marketplaces to help individuals do this.
What is purchase health insurance?
The primary focus of acute care versus ambulatory care.
What is immediate and complex treatment?
A major limitation of free clinics compared to hospitals.
What is limited resources or specialty services?
Care focused on maintaining quality of life and slowing decline.
What is palliative care?
The monthly fee a person pays to maintain insurance coverage.
What is a premium?
The ACA was designed to improve quality, access, and this.
What is cost control?