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Define Primay Care Practices

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Single provider or group practice offices that provide a variety of initial care services

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Define Local Community Screening Centers

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  • typically within local government or municipal buildings.
  • They offer screenings and some chronic care services.
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Define Urgent Care Centers

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  • Storefront healthcare centers that offer extended hours and don’t require appointments.
  • They offer primary care with some ancillary services such as certain x-rays and some laboratory services.
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Define Family Planning Clinics

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Specialized clinics that focus on reproductive healthcare such as birth control counseling and prescribing and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

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Secondary care facilities

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outpatient facilities that provide primary care as well as some surgical procedures or specialized care.

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Public/State Hospital

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run by the state government or other municipal organizations and typically accept patients of all types regardless of their ability to pay.

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Rural Health Hospital

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offer a variety of services for patients who live in remote areas or areas that have limited healthcare services

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Critical Access Hospital (CAH)

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rural and are government-administered. They must be at least 35 miles from any rural health hospital, have fewer than 25 beds, and have patient stays of no more than 96 hours. They must offer emergency department services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Veteran’s Administration Hospital

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administered by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, part of the Department of Defense. They serve members of the military, public health service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

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Indian Health Service Facility

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serve the Indigenous Native community. Eligibility must be established to access these services.

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Acute Care Hospital

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provide medical and surgical care for acute (short-term) illnesses. Most hospitals are acute care facilities.

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Teaching Hospital

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  • Hospitals who train future physicians and other healthcare professionals.
  • may conduct ongoing research projects or clinical trials and provide care for patients with rare or complex conditions.
    -Major teaching hospitals, or academic medical centers, may be affiliated with a medical school.
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Private Nonprofit Hospital

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are often acute care or community hospitals that operate as nonprofit companies.

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Specialty Service Hospital

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  • offer special types of medical services
  • Examples are MD Anderson Acute Care Cancer Hospital in Houston, Texas (serving patients with cancer) or Hospital for Special Surgery in New York (serving patients with orthopedic or rheumatological conditions).
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What type of hospitals are most hospitals?

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Acute Care

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Long-term care facilities

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provide care for longer periods and provide less technically demanding medical services than a hospital.

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Center

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  • rehabilitation centers for mental health, substance abuse, physical and occupational therapies, and cardiac rehabilitation
  • they may receive three to five hours of intensive therapy five days a week
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Long-Term Care Center

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  • serve patients who have very long-term needs
  • include patients in comas, paraplegia, and other long-term medical conditions
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Skilled Nursing Facility

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  • centers serve as a temporary residence for patients undergoing rehabilitation treatment.
  • Patients often stay for long periods and have access to some level of healthcare within the facility, typically one to two hours of non-intensive therapy per day.
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Hospice Care Center

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centers are locations that serve terminally ill patients with palliative and compassionate care.

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Assisted Living Communities

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  • organizations have housing for people with various levels of healthcare needs.
  • Adults live in assisted living communities while they can independently take care of their needs. As they age or their health deteriorates, they can transition to receiving appropriate nursing care.
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Electronic Medical Record Specialist

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Healthcare professional that manages and protects patients’ personal health information (phi) and their facilities statistical data

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Alternate location facilities

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facilities that serve patients in their homes or provide convenient mobile locations

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medical billers and coders

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healthcare professionals that use medical records to translate the diagnoses, services, and supplies into medical coding sets

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long term care facility

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facilities that provide care for longer periods and provide less technically demanding services than a hospital

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certified healthcare professionals

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healthcare professionals who are certified with specific skills that support the healthcare providers and help in patient care

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medical transcriptionist

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healthcare professionals that translate digitally recorded data, usually in audio format, into medical doccuments.

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secondary care facilities

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facilities that provide services beyond primary care

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primary care facility

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first and most basic level of service
- provide primary care services such as screenings, preventive exams, and initial evaluations for care.

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Outpatient Healthcare facilities

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facilities that provide services for patients in a single day

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medical assistants

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healthcare professionals that work directly with patients and healthcare providers

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inpatient healthcare facilities

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facilities that provide more extensive services that require staying under care for more than 24 hours

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medical doctors

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healthcare professionals who hold a Medical Doctor (MD) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree and are qualified to diagnose and treat patients

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Midlevel providers

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healthccare professionals who are licensed and may or may not work under the supervision of a physician.

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hospitals

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facilities that provide a range of different services for all ages of patients with a wide variety of medical needs.

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Medical Administrative Professionals

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health care professionals that facilitate the patients’ access to care and assist healthcare providers with administrative services.

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What do Health Information Technicians specialize in?

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Electronic Medical Records

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Which type of facility provides services and releases patients in the same day?

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outpatient facility

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hard skills

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job-specific skills learned through education, training, or hands-on experience

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Anatomy

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the study of structures in the human body.

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Physiology

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the study of the functions of the structures in the body.

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Medical terminology

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used in each of these areas as a universal language in healthcare.

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Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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includes rules about keeping patient information private and safe, making health insurance accessible, having standards for sharing health information, and other significant rules for keeping healthcare professionals and business associates accountable for care.

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Patient’s Bill of Rights

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outlines basic rules of conduct and interaction between patients and healthcare professionals to ensure the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

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False Claims Act

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describes and enforces penalties for fraudulent and abusive billing practices

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Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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opened options for Americans to obtain and maintain health insurance.

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OSHA

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includes rules and safety measures such as how to handle bodily fluids and medical devices and how to use safety gear.

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The scope of practice

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  • the standard set of tasks and duties that a professional role is considered capable of doing based on their credentials, training, and education.
  • varies from state to state
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Information Management

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includes the collection, storage, and retrieval of health information and financial accounts

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Why is human resource management critical to an organization?

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It assures that adequate staff is available.

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Clinical skills

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skills involved in providing patient care and services.

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vital signs

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  • blood pressure
  • temperature
  • pulse
  • respiration rate
  • sometimes blood oxygenation rate.
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ambulating

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moving from place to place

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Direct Patient Care

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any assistance or service provided directly to the patient as part of their care

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Indirect patient care

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describes all patient-centered services that are provided when the patient isn’t present or in preparation for the patient.

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demographics

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  • name
  • date of birth
  • contact information
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office operations

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involve using and maintaining physical devices and the office facilities themselves.

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Why do different situations require different communication skills?

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Patients, administrative professionals, and physicians have different levels of understanding about medical care.

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What describes how well a person recognizes their feelings and their reactions to them?

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Self-awareness

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What is motivation?

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A desire to progress

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Which is an example of applying social skills?
1. Understanding body language
2. Resolving conflict
3. Challenging yourself
4. Reacting to your feelings

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  1. Resolving conflict
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Which term describes an organization’s ability to provide care that’s respectful of patients’ cultures?
1. Cultural awareness
2. Cultural competence

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  1. Cultural competence
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Cultural competence

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Cultural competence involves respecting all patients’ cultures and providing care that their culture deems acceptable.

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

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A way of understanding emotions and managing them with empathy and compassion.

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Self-Awareness

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How a person recognizes their feelings and the way they react to those feelings.

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Empathy

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The ability to understand the emotions of other individuals and groups

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personal ethics

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ethics based on life experiences, religion, family, and other cultural contexts.

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Ethics

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The principles and values that a person or organization holds, that guides them to the correct responses in situations.

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Cultural Awareness

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Knowing one’s culture, its prejudices, biases and preferences, and understanding and appreciating someone else’s culture.

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Cultural diversity

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The concept that there are many different cultures living among each other.

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social awareness

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helps anticipate and meet the needs perceived in colleagues and patients.

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Professional Ethics

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code of ethics developed by healthcare organizations that team members will abide by at work

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Social skills

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Involves using self-awareness, self-regulating, motivation and empathy towards others.

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self-regulation

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The understanding of how to manage the feelings that come up in self-awareness

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Primary care services

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  • routine visits
  • checks
  • preventive services.
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Secondary care services

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involve more expertise from and are more dependent on healthcare professionals.

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Tertiary care services

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intensive, and patients’ lives may depend on them

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Quaternary care services

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research-focused and experimental

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Capitation

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is where a provider of healthcare services is paid to care for a roster of patients for a period of time. For example, a provider would be paid a fixed payment to treat all 5,000 patients. However, the provider may or may not actually care for each person on the list.

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Medicare

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available for people age 65 and older, younger people with disabilities, and people with end-stage renal disease (permanent kidney failure).

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Medicaid

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available for low-income individuals, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Eligibility is based on reported income in relation to the federal poverty level (FPL).

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The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

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provides insurance coverage for children in families that don’t qualify for Medicaid based on their income but can’t afford private healthcare coverage.

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TRICARE

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insurance coverage for military members and their families. It covers active duty, National Guard/Reserve duty, and retired military members and their families or former spouses.

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How does fee-for-service payment work?

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Providers are paid for each service

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ACA

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Affordable Care Act

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State Government Healthcare Facilities

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Strategically locted in the states to provide a foundation of care for the citizen of that state

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Chronic Illness Care

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Includes services to treat long-term illness

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Continium of Care

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The range of healthcare services and service location types that are offered in the industry

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Law

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A mandatory rule created by a government agency

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For Profit Health Organization

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  • Charge for their services
  • Pay taxes
  • Their income from services partially pays expense and partially is profit
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Fee for Service Basis

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Each service is billed for a specific fee and each service has to be paid individually

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Not-For-Profit Healthcare Organizations

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Put profit back into the organization for future use

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Revenue

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Income from services

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Federal Government Healthcare Facilities

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Typically focus on public health concerns

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HITECH

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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health reinforces issues of privacy and security of health information and promotes the use of electronic technology in healthcare

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Preventive Care

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Includes services that detect and prevent medical programs

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PPACA

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), addresses access to care, creating policies and a marketplace to purchase health insurance

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Claims

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a request for payment to an insurance company to cover medical service cost

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Local Government Facilities

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Provide some healthcare facilities to the members of their communities

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Regulation

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Rules on how laws are to be used

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Military Treatment Facility (MTF)

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Serve active and retired military personnel and their families.

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Compliance Plans

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Plans to keep all the team and its resources in compliance with current laws and regulations.

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MACRA

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The Medicare Access & CHIP (Childrens’ Health Insurance Program) Reauthorization Act of 2015 provides incentives for quality of care overr quantity of care and a reasonably priced comprehensive healthcare plan for all children of low and moderate income families.

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