Government Agency
An international agency sponsored by the UN; compiles statistics and information on disease, publishes health information and investigates and addresses serious health problems throughout the world.
What is the WHO?
A fee that an individual pays for health coverage.
What is a premium?
What is Obama care?
Performs minor surgical procedures and patients are sent home the same day.
What is a surgicenter?
What HIPAA stands for.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
A national agency that deals with health problems in the US. NIH and CDC are two of its divisions.
What is the USDHHS?
Amounts that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the insurance policy begins to pay.
What is a deductible?
The age a young adult can be covered under a parent's insurance policy.
What is 26?
Offers outpatient PT, OT and speech therapy.
What is a rehabilitation clinic?
Year HIPAA was passed.
What is 1996?
Regulates food, drugs, medical devices and cosmetics.
FDA
Requires that specific percentages are shared by the patient and insurance company.
What is Co-insurance?
The year the ACA was signed into law.
What is 2010?
Allows individuals who can care for themselves to rent or purchase an apartment in the facility. Provides services such as meals, housekeeping and laundry.
What is an assisted living facility?
What is Protected Health Information?
Establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is OSHA?
A specific amount the patient pays for a particular service, regardless of the total cost for the visit.
Helps small businesses provide insurance for their employees.
What is a small business tax credit?
Treats a wide range of conditions and age groups; usually provide diagnostic, medical, surgical, and emergency care services.
What are General Hospitals?
Pre-tax dollars to be spent on health care.
What is a medical savings account?
A non-profit, U.S. based organization that was created to ensure that patients receive the safest, highest quality care in any health care setting.
What is JCAHO?
What is a Medigap policy?
What is a pre-existing condition?
What is Occupational Health?
Telling your employer that you are HIV positive without your permission.
What is a HIPAA violation?