Everything a provider "does" for a patient leads to a bill generated and a fee paid.
What is a fee-for-service? (Taylors pg.247)
What is FEE FOR SERVICE?
Provide medical and nonmedical care for people with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
What are extended-care services? (Taylors, pg. 253)
This type of care evolved from hospice but is not restricted to the end of life.
What is Palliative Care? (Taylors, pg. 256)
The protection and support of another's rights.
What is advocacy? (Taylors, pg. 268)
Allows a third-party payer to contract with a group of health care providers to provide services at a lower fee in return for prompt pay.
What is A PPO (PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATION) Taylors pg. 248
The largest federally funded healthcare programs. (There are 2)
What is Medicare and Medicaid? (Taylors, pg. 250)
What is Respite care. (Taylors, pg. 256)
An internal organization for recovering alcoholics- a type of voluntary facility or program.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous? (Taylors pg. 257)
This type of documentation allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers, and patient to appropriately access and securely share a patient's vital medical information electronically.
What is health information exchange? HIE (Taylors, pg. 467)
What is an ACO? (accountable care organization) pg.248
A person who enters a hospital and stays overnight for an undetermined time. (from days to months)
What is an Inpatient? (Taylors pg. 252)
MAIN FOCUS IS TO PREVENT DISEASE COMPLICATIONS AND RESTORE THE PATIENT BACK TO HEALTH
What is SECONDARY CARE
Someone who uses a commodity or service in health care.
What is a health care consumer? (Taylors, pg. 259)
What is a source-oriented record? (Taylors, pg. 467)
The deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants.
Care Coordination (Taylors, pg.249)
REFERS TO THOSE WHO HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE OR COVERAGE
What is UNINSURED?
EMERGENCY DEPTS, PHYSICIANS OFFICES AND AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES ARE EXAMPLES OF WHAT TYPE OF CARE
What is PRIMARY CARE
What happens when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, care givers and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.
What is collaborative practice? (Taylors, pg.270)
What is a narrative note? (Taylors, pg. 468)
HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IS PAID A SET RATE FOR EACH TYPE OF DIAGNOSIS NO MATTER WHAT THE COST OF CARE
What is DRG (DIAGNOSED RELATED GROUP) Taylors pg. 251
Those who are not hospitalized overnight but who require diagnosis or treatment.
TRAUMA CENTERS, HOSPICE CARE AND REHABILITATION CENTERS ARE EXAMPLES OF THIS TYPE OF CARE
What is TERTIARY CARE
A continuous process in which a patient's care shifts from being provided in one setting of care to another.
What is care transition? (Taylors, pg. 273)
What is a problem-oriented medical record. (Taylor's pg. 468)