Healthcare Flashcards
An institution that encompasses all of the health related components of the University, including its health professions school, patient care operations, and research enterprise
Academic health center
A hospital typically a community hospital that delivery service is designed to meet the needs of patients to require short term care for a period of less than 30 days
Acute care hospital
Medical care provided on an outpatient basis
Ambulatory care
Services that relate to a patient’s care, such as lab work, x-rays, and anesthesia
Ancillary services
The average number of days in a given period that a patient remains in the hospital; varies by type of admission, age, and sex and is calculated by dividing the total number of bad days by the number of discharges for a specified period
Average length of stay
The actor placing several products or services together in a single package and selling for a lower price than would be charged if the items were sold separately; in healthcare, usually means one price for all of the services provided for a given diagnosis or procedure, such as a total joint replacement
Bundled pricing
The federal agency responsible for administering Medicare, Medicaid, and the state children’s health insurance program
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services
Charitable care, education services, and other benefits that he healthcare organization provides to its community to qualify as a tax exempt charity under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code
Community benefit
The measure of infections acquired From a community, in contrast to those acquired in a hospital
Community acquired infection rates
The full spectrum of healthcare, including preventative, ambulatory, a cute, postacute, long-term, pallative and hospice
Continuum of care
A rural community hospital that receives cost based reimbursement
Critical access hospital
A hospital that receives Medicare funding for treatment in a higher proportion of indignant patience calculated by a formula; the affordable care act would decreased this funding overtime
Disproportionate share hospital
A statistical analysis in forecast of the health needs of the community a healthcare organization serves
Epidemiologic Planning model
A management approach that relies heavily on performance measurement, identification of best practices, and formal process specification
Evidence based management
A health insurance organization licensed at the state level two which subscribers pay a predetermined fee in return for access to a panel of employed physicians and network of facilities
Health maintenance organization
An account created for individuals who are covered under high deductible health plan to save for medical expenses that the plans do not cover
Health savings account
A managed-care technique in which the insured obtain permission from a managed care organization before entering the hospital for non-emergency care
Hospital preauthorization
A physician who manages broad categories of hospitalized patients
Hospitalist
Traditional fee for service health plans
Indemnity plans
A documented process that includes the patient, the family, and all clinical disciplines involved in planning and providing care to a patient from system point of entry, throughout the entire acute care episode, and to the next level of care
Interdisciplinary plan of care
The independent not-for-profit organization that evaluates in monitors the quality of care provided in hospitals
Joint commission
A continuum of maintenance, custodial, and health services provided to the chronically ill, disabled, or mentally handicapped
Long-term care
Health insurance sold by private insurance companies to fill the gaps in original Medicare plan coverage
Medigap
The incidence and severity of illness and accidents in a population
Morbidity
