Key Terms Chapter 1

Affordable Care Act

This law is to provide the consumer with insurance options and an increased accessibility to affordable health care.

Accountable Care Organization

A network of hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers who voluntarily offer to coordinate care for their Medicare patients.

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

It differs in that the provider (private physician groups) must bid annually for contracts to serve this population and patients are able to choose their healthcare provider through annual open enrollment.

Ambulatory Patient Classification

A classification system implemented in 2000 for determining payment to healthcare facilities for Medicare and Medicaid patients only.

As the patients advocate, this person has the responsibility to advise the the patient on healthcare needs and coordinate responses to those needs.

Evidence that an individual has mastered fundamental competencies in a particular technical area.

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Biases or personalized filters that are major obstructions to verbal communication.

Current Procedural Terminology

To remove all blood.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Patients information/Test results are to be kept confidential.

Health Maintenance Organizations

International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedural Coding System.

A healthcare provider that includes a number of associated medical facilities that can furnish coordinated healthcare services from prebirth and death.

When the verbal and nonverbal messages do not match.

The study of nonverbal communication.

Manage Care Organizations

MCOs contract with local providers to establish a complete network of services.

A federal and state program that provides medical assistance for low-income Americans.

Federally funded programs that provides health care to people over the age of 65 and to the disabled.

Medical Laboratory Scientist

Generally has a bachelor’s degree plus additional studies and experience in clinical laboratory settings.

Primary Care Physician

Protected Health Information

Patient privacy

Public Health Service

Incision into the vein for the purpose of drawing blood.

A disorder involving overproduction of red blood cells.

Care by general physician who assumes ongoing responsibility for maintaining his or her patients’ health.

The study of an individual’s concept and use of space.

Large independent laboratories that receive and test specimens from many different facilities.

Care by a physician (Specialist) who can perform out-of-the-ordinary procedures in outpatient facilities.

High complex care and therapy services from practitioners in an hospital or overnight facility.

An insurance company or government program that pays for healthcare services on behalf of a patient.