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Oh, the Agencies...
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The ACA!
Safety Net
Potpourri
100
A faith-based non-profit primary care organization and FQHC in Palm Beach County, that began treating patients in June 2010, committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities they serve.
What is Genesis Community Health?
100
$11,490.00
What is 100 FPL for one individual (2013)?
100
To qualify for coverage beginning January 1, 2014, consumers MUST enroll by this date.
What is December 15, 2013?
100
Health care providers who deliver health care services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. These providers may consist of public hospital systems, community health centers, local health departments, and other providers who serve a disproportionate share of uninsured and low-income patients.
What are safety net providers?
100
An agency committed to providing high quality civil legal advice, representation and education to the disadvantaged of Palm Beach County so as to protect their personal safety, enhance their opportunities and living conditions and promote self-sufficiency.
What is the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County?
200
An agency that seeks to improve birth outcomes by providing access to prenatal care to uninsured or underinsured pregnant women and teens in Palm Beach County. Our goal is for women to enter prenatal care in the first trimester of their pregnancy so that their babies are born healthy, safe and strong.
What is healthy mothers healthy babies of Palm Beach County?
200
1-800-318-2596
What is the phone number one can call to get information about the Health Insurance Marketplace or to apply for coverage?
200
The virtual platforms that recently launched to help consumers comparison-shop for and enroll in comprehensive insurance plans.
What are Health Insurance Marketplaces or Health Insurance Exchanges?
200
Safety net providers such as community health clinics and public housing centers that provide health services regardless of the ability to pay and are funded by the federal government.
What is a federally qualified health center (FQHC).
200
The number of municipalities in Palm Beach County.
What is 38?
300
A not for profit organization dedicated to uniting physicians to serve the common interest of the profession, developing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of the medical profession, advocating the interests of physicians and their patients and collaborating with others to improve the community's health.
What is the Palm Beach County Medical Society?
300
1,356,545
What is the 2012 population of PBC?
300
This provision of the ACA requires insurers to offer and renew coverage, without regard to health status, use of services, or pre-existing conditions. This requirement ensures that no one will be denied coverage for any reason.
What is guarantee issue/renewal?
300
This program works with cities, states, and local community-based organization to provide HIV-related services to those who do not have sufficient health care coverage or financial resources for coping with HIV disease. It fills gaps in care not covered by these other sources.
What is the Ryan White Program?
300
A nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by the Affordable Care Act. They are working with partners that span the gamut of health coverage stakeholders—health insurers, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, employers, consumer groups, faith-based organizations, civic organizations, and philanthropies—to engage many different voices in support of an easy, accessible, and widely available enrollment process.
What is Enroll America?
400
This agency’s mission is to provide comprehensive sexual health care through the provision of clinical services, education and advocacy. They are dedicated to providing services that are affordable, accessible and available to all women, men and youth in the community, regardless of the individual’s income, race, marital status, religion, sexual orientation or residence.
What is Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast?
400
100% - 400%
What are the percentages of FPL one most fall within to be eligible for tax credits when they purchase health care coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace?
400
The ACA has put a particular emphasis on health care that emphasizes the early detection and treatment of diseases. This focus is intended to keep people healthier for longer, thus reducing health care costs over the long term.
What is preventive care?
400
This center offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care and is the largest clinic of its kind in the state of Florida. It is a free clinic for patients and their families who do not have insurance. Their goal is to help the working poor population stay healthy so that they can be productive individuals in our community.
What is the Caridad Center?
400
267,732 or 19.9%
What is the uninsured population in 2012 (civilian non-institutionalized) in Palm Beach County?
500
The organization that began providing primary health care services to adults and children at the C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics in June 2013 and is managing and operating the clinics as Federally Qualified Health Centers
What is the Health Care District of Palm Beach County?
500
$95 or 1% of taxable income (or whichever is greater)
What is the tax penalty that an individual will have to pay if they do not have qualifying health coverage in 2014 and do not qualify for an exemption?
500
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is providing funding for navigation to several organizations in Palm Beach County. What are they?
What are: the Health Council of Southeast Florida, Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, and Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC.
500
In 2010 in Palm Beach County, the total cost of uncompensated care was $115,683,956. This facility provided 19.6% of the uncompensated care in the county, the largest proportion among hospitals.
What is JFK Medical Center?
500
The health policy buzzword used to describe young, generally healthy individuals who remain uninsured due to optimism bias: the perception that insurance is not a sensible investment since they are unlikely to need expensive medical treatment.
What are the ‘young and invincibles’?