WGS Benefits
What type of ambulance transports the equipment and staff needed for basic services?
What is Basic Life Support (BLS) Ambulance.
True or False.
An ambulance vehicle operates only on land.
False. It can operate land, water and air.
The treatment of diseases by means of chemical substances or drugs.
What is Chemotherapy.
A counseling service that is intended for the surviving family and friends.
What is bereavement counseling.
Items that are used in the treatment of a disease or injury in the home or other non-facility setting.
What are Supplies.
This type of anesthesia agent blocks pain and/or sensation to a specific region of the body.
What is Regional Anesthesia.
Equipment that can stand repeated use for medical purposes to treat an illness or injury primarily in a hospital or facility setting.
What Durable Medical Equipment (DME).
Anthem provides this benefit for the services of an array of state-licensed or certified professional providers whose services satisfy the Conditions for Coverage
What are Physician Benefits.
Name 2 types of diagnostic radiology.
What are:
- X-Rays
- CAT Scan
- MRI
- Ultrasound
This type of care is not intended to treat illness or disease, but rather maintaining a person's health preventing the occurrence of illness or disease.
What is Preventive Care.
What is the definition of a specialized practice?
A professional provider who specializes in a particular type of practice such as allergy, dermatology, etc.
The cost of the service provided by the physician or technician for collecting, handling, performing, and interpreting the results of a particular test.
What is a laboratory charge.
The inability to conceive a child by a couple who have had regular sexual relations without contraception.
What is Infertility.
The care and treatment of a pregnant female through the term of the pregnancy. This includes prenatal, delivery, and postnatal care.
What is Maternity Care.
A public or private agency or facility that provides palliative care (pain control and symptom relief) to terminally ill patients. Primary aim is to make a patient's last days more comfortable.
What is hospice care.
The artificial removal of waste from a patient's blood due to patient's kidneys can no longer perform this function.
What is dialysis.
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______ _______ care providers are licensed according to state and local laws to provide skilled nursing and other services on a visiting basis in the home.
What is Home Health.
Rehabilitates patients who are unable to speak coherently because of congenital disorders, injury or illness.
What is Speech Therapy.
The art and science of physical/corrective rehab or treatment designed to improve or restore max functional ability, relive pain and prevent disability following disease, injury or loss of a body part.
What is Physical Medicine/Therapy.
A rigid or semi-rigid supportive device that restricts or prevents the motion of a weak or diseased part of the body. Ex: Braces or splints.
What are Orthotics.
Therapy designed to help individuals become as self-sufficient as possible in the activities of daily life following an illness or injury. Restores old/new skills to adapt to a disability such as stroke.
The science of making and adjusting artificial parts of the human body. It replaces all or part of the body part's function.
What are Prosthetics.
Procedures concerned with the treatment of injuries and disease by operations and manipulation. Operations include incision, excision, amputation and repair.
What are Surgical Procedures.
Symptoms of this disorder are distortions of normal thinking, moodiness, depression or unusual behavior.
What is Nervous and/or Mental Disorders.
The inappropriate self-administration of a legal or illegal substance. This includes addiction to such substance.
What is Substance Abuse.