Other Non-Science

Question 1

What is the definition of visual impairment?

Answer 1

Best corrected visual acuity worse than 20/40

Question 2

What is the definition of legal blindness?

Answer 2

Best corrected visual acuity worse than 20/200, or visual field extent <20 degrees in better seeing eye

Question 3

What is the leading cause of blindness in areas of poor access, low-income areas?

Answer 3

Cataract

• Leading in elderly population = age-related macular degeneration
• Leading in working-age population in developed countries = diabetic retinopathy

Question 4

What are the risk factors for cataract?

Answer 4

• UV exposure
• Age
• Tobacco use
• Diabetes mellitus
• Diet
• Alcohol use
• Trauma
• Medication
  
  • Oral steroids

Question 5

List 3 ways that a person can qualify for Medicare coverage

Answer 5

• Age 65 and older
• End stage renal disease
• Long term disabled and cannot work
  
  • 2 years of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) eligibility
  • Note - I think you just have to be elligible, not necessarily covered under SSDI during this time?

Question 6

If you are elligible for Social Security Income (SSI), what government-sponsered insurance can you qualify for immediately?

Answer 6

Medicaid

Question 7

What is the role of medicaid waivers

Answer 7

To *attempt* to fix our horribly broken health system

They waive at lease one of 3 medicaid rules:

• Comparability
  
  • The rule that enrollees should get the same services
• Income
  
  • The rule that says you have to make less than a certain amount to be medicaid elligible
  • This one applies to the case of the super sick child who needed nursing care, but the parents made too much to qualify for medicaid and nursing wasn’t covered under their private insurance
• Statewideness
  
  • The rule that things must be the same in different parts of the state

Question 8

In general:

• A patient with work history will typically qualify for [SSI/SSDI/Medicare/Medicaid]
  
  • ​Choose 2
• A low-income patient with insufficient work history will typically qualify for [SSI/SSDI/Medicare/Medicaid]
  
  • ​Choose 2

Answer 8

In general:

• A patient with work history will typically qualify for SSDI/Medicare
• A low-income patient with insufficient work history will typically qualify for SSI/Medicaid