6 Weeks Review Flashcards
Provide special care for accidents or sudden illness
Emergency care
Provide assistance and care for mainly elderly patients
Long term care
Deal with mental disorders and disease
Mental health
Health centers located in large companies or industries
Industrial health
Offices owned by one or more dentists
Dental clinic
Perform special diagnostic tests
Laboratory
Provide care in a patients home
Home health care
Provide physical, occupational, and other therapies
Rehabilitation
4 main types of hospitals
Private
Religous
Non profit
Goverment
Premium
Payment made to the insurance company
Deductible
Amounts that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay
75\25% co insurance
Requires that specific percentages of expenses are shared by the patient and insurance company. Company pays 75 patients pay 25
Co-payment
A specific amount of money a patient pays for a particular service
HMOs
Health maintainer organization is a type of health insurance plan. Focuses on prevented medicine
PPOs
Preferred provider organization is a type of health insurance plan usually provided by large companies to their employees
Over the age of 65
Person with disability who has received social security benefits for at least two years
Medicare
Low income
Children who qualify for public assistance
Physically disabled or blind
Medicaid
Uninsured children of working families who earn too little to afford private insure bt too much to be eligible for Medicaid
State children’s health insurance program
Workers who get injured
Workers compensation