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Health care policy and politics A to Z / Julie Rovner.

Title: Health care policy and politics A to Z / Julie Rovner.
Author: Rovner, Julie
Publication: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, ©2003.

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xii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

More than three hundred entries explain the history, politics, and terminology of the health care debate. Contents include profiles of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and congressional committees responsible for making health care policy, plus contact information on the most influential groups; definitions of the terms and concepts essential for understanding health policy; history and analysis of important health care policies and policy debates involving programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the uninsured; Reports on medical advances, new drugs and technologies, policy debates, and recent trends in health care delivery; appendixes, including a time line and suggested readings.--From publisher description.

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Encyclopedia
encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopédies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index.

Contents

Abortion 1 -- Academic health centers (AHCs) 9 -- Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) 10 -- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 10 -- Activities of daily living (ADLs) 12 -- Adjusted average per capita cost (AAPCC) 13 -- Adjusted community rate (ACR) 13 -- Adolescent family life program (AFLP) 13 -- Advance directives 14 -- Advanced practice nurse 14 -- Adverse selection 14 -- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) 15 -- Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) 15 -- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) 16 -- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) 16 -- Alternative medicine 16 -- American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) 17 -- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) 17 -- American Medical Association (AMA) 18 -- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 19 -- Assignment (Medicare) 21 -- Association Health Plans (AHPs) 21 -- Average wholesale price 22 -- Balance billing (Medicare) 24 -- Baseline 24 -- Beneficiary 24 -- Bioterrorism 24 -- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) 26 -- Boren amendment 27 -- Budget reconciliation legislation and health care 28 -- Cafeteria benefits plans 33 -- California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) 33 -- Capitation 33 -- Carrier (Medicare) 34 -- Carve-out organizations 34 -- Catastrophic illness 34 -- Categorical eligibility 34 -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 34 -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 36 -- Certified nurse midwife 36 -- Certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) 36 -- Child Custody Protection Act 36 -- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) 37 -- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) 37 -- Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) 38 -- Clinical practice guidelines 38 -- Clinical trials 39 -- Cloning, human 39 -- Coinsurance 42 -- Common rule 42 -- Community health centers 42 -- Community rating 43 -- Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 43 -- Conscience clause 44 -- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) 44 -- Consumer-driven health plans 45 -- Contraceptive coverage 46 -- Cost shifting 47 -- Crowd out 47 -- Current procedural terminology (CPT) codes 47 -- Deductible 49 -- Defined benefit 49 -- Defined contribution 49 -- Diagnosis-related group (Medicare) 49 -- Dietary supplement rules 49 -- Direct medical education payments 51 -- Disease management 51 -- Disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments (Medicare and Medicaid) 52 -- "Do-not-resuscitate" orders 53 -- Drive-through deliveries 53 -- Dual eligibles 53 -- Durable power of attorney for health care 55 -- Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT; Medicaid) 56 -- Embryo research 56 -- Emergency contraception 56 -- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) 58 -- End-stage renal disease (Medicare) 59 -- Entitlement 59 -- Evidence-based medicine 60 -- Experience rating 60 -- External review 60 -- False Claims Act 61 -- Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP) 61 -- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) 62 -- Federal medical assistance percentages (FMAPs) 62 -- Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) 62 -- Fee-for-service 63 -- Fetal tissue research 63 -- First-dollar coverage 65 -- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 65 -- Formulary 66 -- Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) 67 -- Freedom of Choice Act 68 -- Gag clauses (in managed care) 70 -- Gag rule (in abortion) 71 -- Gatekeeper 72 -- Generic drugs 72 -- Genetic discrimination 74 -- Global tobacco settlement 75 -- Graduate medical education (GME) 77 -- Guaranteed issue 78 -- Guaranteed renewability 78 -- Health and Human Services Department (HHS) 80 -- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) 82 -- Health care fraud and abuse 83 -- Health care spending 85 -- Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) 87 -- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 87 -- Health jurisdiction in Congress 91 -- Health maintenance organization (HMO) 92 -- Health plan 93 -- Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) 93 -- Health professional shortage area (HPSA) 94 -- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 94 -- Health Security Act 94 -- Health services research 97 -- Hill-Burton Act 97 -- Home health care 98 -- Hospice 98 -- Hospital Insurance (HI) 99 -- Hospitalist 99 -- House Appropriations Committee 99 -- House Education and Workforce Committee 100 -- House Energy and Commerce Committee 100 -- House Ways and Means Committee 100 -- Human research subject protection 100 -- Hyde amendment 102 -- ICD-9 codes 106 -- Incidence 106 -- Income-related premium 106 -- Indian Health Service 107 -- Indirect Medical Education Payments (IME) 108 -- Infertility clinic regulation 108 -- Informed consent 109 -- Institute of Medicine 109 -- Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) 109 -- Intermediary (Medicare) 111 -- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) 112 -- Judicial bypass 112 -- Kennedy-Kassebaum law 113 -- Kerr-Mills bill 113 -- Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriation (Labor-HHS) 114 -- Late-term abortion 114 -- Lifetime limits 115 -- Living wills 115 -- Long-term care 115 -- Loss ratios 116 -- Managed behavioral health care 117 -- Managed care 117 -- Managed competition 120 -- Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant 120 -- Means testing (Medicare) 120 -- Medicaid 121 -- Medicaid drug rebate program 126 -- Medical Device User Fee Act 127 -- Medical errors 127 -- Medical malpractice 129 -- Medical necessity 132 -- Medical records confidentiality 132 -- Medical savings accounts (MSAs) 135 -- Medical underwriting 136 -- Medically needy 137 -- Medicare 137 -- Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act 146 -- Medicare+Choice 148 -- Medicare givebacks 150 -- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) 151 -- Medigap insurance 151 -- Mental health parity 153 -- Mexico City policy 155 -- Mifepristone 157 -- Migrant health centers 157 -- NARAL-Pro-Choice America 158 -- National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 158 -- National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare 158 -- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) 159 -- National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) 160 -- National Health Services Corps 160 -- National Institutes of Health (NIH) 161 -- National Practitioner Data Bank 163 -- National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) 164 -- Needle exchange 165 -- Nuclear transplantation 166 -- Nurse practitioner (NP) 166 -- Nursing home standards 166 -- Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) 167 -- Off-label use 169 -- Oregon Health Care Plan 169 -- Organ donations and transplants 171 -- Orphan drugs 173 -- Outcomes 173 -- Parental consent 174 -- Parental involvement laws 174 -- Parental notification 175 -- Partial-birth abortion 176 -- Participating physician (Medicare) 180 -- Patient "dumping" 180 -- Patients' Bill of Rights (PboR) 181 -- Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 184 -- Payers 185 -- Pediatric exclusivity 185 -- Pediatric Rule 186 -- Peer review 187 -- Pepper Commission 187 -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 188 -- Pharmacy benefit managers 188 -- Physician assistants 189 -- Physician Payment Review Commission 189 -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) 189 -- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 191 -- Play or pay 191 -- Point of service plan (POS) 191 -- Portability 191 -- Poverty statistics 192 -- Preexisting condition 193 -- Preferred provider organization (PPO) 193 -- Premiums 193 -- Premium support 194 -- Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) 194 -- Prevalence 195 -- Primary care 195 -- Primary care physician (PCP) 195 -- Prior authorization 196 -- Private contracting (Medicare) 196 -- Private fee-for-service (Medicare) 197 -- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) 197 -- Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC) 198 -- Prospective payment system (PPS) 198 -- Providers 199 -- Provider-sponsored organizations (PSOs) 199 -- Prudent layperson 199 -- Public health 200 -- Public Health Service (PHS) 200 -- Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps 202 -- Qualified Medicare beneficiary (QMB) 203 -- Qualifying Individual Program (QI-1 and QI-2) 203 -- Quality improvement organizations (QIO) 204 -- Rationing 205 -- Referral 205 -- Regenerative medicine 205 -- Reimportation, prescription drug 206 -- Report cards 208 -- Residency review committees (RRCs) 208 -- Resource-based relative value scale 208 -- Respite care 208 -- Retiree health insurance 208 -- Ribicoff children 209 -- Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act 209 -- Risk adjustment 210 -- Roe v. Wade 210 -- RU486 211 -- Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource and Emergency (CARE) Act 214 -- Safety net facilities 216 -- Secondary care 216 -- Secondary payer (Medicare) 217 -- Self-insurance 217 -- Self-referral curbs 217 -- Senate Appropriations Committee 218 -- Senate Finance Committee 219 -- Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) 219 -- Single payer 220 -- Small market variation 221 -- Social Security Act 221 -- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) 222 -- Somatic cell nuclear transfer 222 -- Specialty care 222 -- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB) 223 -- Spend-down 223 -- Spousal impoverishment 223 -- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) 224 -- Stem cell research 225.

ISBN

1568028520
9781568028521

LCCN

2003023089

OCLC

53286486
SCSB-10239820

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