Intro Healthcare Delivery System Study Guide

Treat a wide range of conditions and age groups. Provide diagnostic, medical, surgical and emergency care services.

• Specialty hospitals
• General hospitals
• Long term care facilities
• Hospice

Provide care for special conditions or age groups. Ex. burn hospitals and psychiatric hospitals

• General hospitals
• Health Maintenance Organization
• Specialty hospitals
• HIPPA

Operated by federal, state and local government agencies. Ex. public hospitals and Veteran Affairs (VA).

• Government hospitals
• Extended care facilities
• Optical centers
• WHO

Mainly provide assistance and care for elderly patients, usually called residents. 

• Mental health facilities
• National Institute of Health
• Health Department
• Long term care facilities

Also known as nursing homes or geriatric homes.

• Extended Stay America
• Residential care facilities
• Betty Ford Center
• Independent living and assisted living facilities

Agencies that provide care for the terminally ill who usually have life expectancies of six months or less. 

• St. Jude Research Hospital 
• Hospice
• Shelters
• Generally hospitals

To pay for the costs of health care, most people rely on ...?

• Health Departments
• Health Insurance Plans
• Healthy eating
• HIPPA

Amounts that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay. 

• Co-insurance
• HMO
• Deductible 
• PPO

Requires that specific percentages of expenses are shared by the patient and insurance company. 

• Co-insurance
• Deductible
• Co-payment
• Medigap

One disadvantage of this type of insurance is the insured is required to use only in network affiliated health care providers for health care. If a non-affiliated health care provider is used the insured must pay for the care. 

• Tricare
• Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
• Managed Care
• Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)