These are five examples of services provided by a Home Health Care Agency
What is nursing care,personal care, therapy (physical, occupational, speech, or respiratory care), homemaking (food prep, cleaning, and other household tasks)?
100
This term refers to a fee that is paid to an insurance company.
What is a premium?
100
Medical assistants and LPN's would most likely report to this person in a typical Medical Office.
What is a registered nurse?
100
HIPPA limits exclusions on this to allow for the continuance of insurance even with job changes.
What is preexisting conditions?
100
This international agency is sponsored by the United Nations and investigates serious health problems throughout the world.
What is the World Health Organization?
200
These facilities are located in hospitals, clinics, and/or private centers. They provide care to help patients with physical or mental disabilities.
What are Rehabilitation Facilities?
200
This is the term that refers to the amount that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay.
What is a deductible?
200
The Lab techs, Housekeeping, and receptionist would report to this person.
Who is the Office Manager?
200
Tax related Health Provisions promote the use of this type of account.
What is a medical savings account?
200
This national agency deals with the health problems in the United States.
What is the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)?
300
These are examples of mental health facilities that treat patients with mental disorders and diseases.
What are guidance and counseling centers, psychiatric clinics and hospitals, chemical abuse treatment centers, and physical abuse treatment centers?
300
This term refers to the amount of money a patient pays for a particular service, like a physician visit, regardless of the total cost of the visit.
What is a co-payment?
300
Healthcare workers must always take questions, reports, and problems to this person.
Who is their immediate supervisor?
300
Application and Enforcement of Group Health Plan Requirements, establishes standards that require group health care plans to offer these 3 things.
What are portability, access, and renewability to all members?
300
This facility is a division of the USDHHS and focuses on researching diseases.
What is the National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
400
This government facility was recently involved in a scandal that highlighted gross negligence including delaying care to patients they served.
What is the Veterans Administration Hospital System?
400
This term relates to an insurance requirement that specific percentages of the expenses are shared by the patient and the insurance company.
What is Co-insurance?
400
It is important that health care workers understand these two things about the organization that employs them.
What are the functions and goals of the organization?
400
These four things have contributed to a reduction in health care costs for all Americans.
What are standardized electronic health care records, reduction in administrative costs, increased tax benefits, and a decrease in fraud and abuse in health care?
400
This division of the USDHHS is concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases in populations.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention?
500
This term associated with facilities means "operated for profit."
What is proprietary?
500
This insurance program was established to provide health care to uninsured children of working families who earned to much to be eligible for Medicaid, but too little to afford private insurance.
What is The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)?
500
Health care workers must always take questions, reports, and problems to this person.
Who is their immediate supervisor?
500
The acronym HIPPA stands for this.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
500
This federal agency was established in 1990 to research the quality of health care delivery and identify the standards of treatment that should be provided by health care facilities.
What is the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)?