Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z
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Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z

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Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z

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This essential guide for libraries, policy makers, and anyone concerned with health care in America has now been fully updated

Readers will find updated information on long term health care spending, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, health insurance and the uninsured, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and much, much more. New entries reflect important changes in recent years and include the Medicare Modernization Act, abstinence education, electronic health records, health savings accounts, Plan B, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Project BioShield.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. AARP
  8. Abortion
  9. Abstinence education
  10. Academic health centers (AHCs)
  11. Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
  12. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  13. Activities of daily living (ADLs)
  14. Adolescent family life (AFL) program
  15. Advance directives
  16. Advanced practice nurse
  17. Adverse selection
  18. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
  19. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  20. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  21. Alternative medicine
  22. American Association of Health Plans (AAHP)
  23. American Medical Association (AMA)
  24. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  25. Americaā€™s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
  26. Asset test
  27. Assignment (Medicare)
  28. Association Health Plans (AHPs)
  29. Balance billing (Medicare)
  30. Baseline
  31. Beneficiary
  32. Bioterrorism
  33. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association (BCBSA)
  34. Boren amendment
  35. Budget reconciliation legislation and health care
  36. Cafeteria benefits plans
  37. California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS)
  38. Capitation
  39. Carrier (Medicare)
  40. Carve-out organizations
  41. Catastrophic illness
  42. Categorical eligibility
  43. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  44. Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices
  45. Certified nurse midwife
  46. Certified registered nurse anesthetist(CRNA)
  47. Child Custody Protection Act
  48. Childrenā€™s Health Insurance Program
  49. Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS)
  50. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA)
  51. Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
  52. Clinical practice guidelines
  53. Clinical trials
  54. Cloning, human
  55. Coinsurance
  56. Common rule
  57. Community health centers
  58. Community rating
  59. Comparative clinical effectiveness research
  60. Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
  61. Conscience clause
  62. Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
  63. Consumer-driven health plans
  64. Contraceptive coverage
  65. Cost shifting
  66. Crowd out
  67. Current procedural terminology (CPT) codes
  68. Deductible
  69. Defined benefit
  70. Defined contribution
  71. Diagnosis-related group (Medicare)
  72. Dietary supplement rules
  73. Direct medical education payments
  74. Disease management
  75. Disproportionate share hospital (DSH) pa yments (Medicare and Medicaid)
  76. ā€œDo-Not-Resuscitateā€orders
  77. Drive-through deliveries
  78. Dual eligibles
  79. Durable power of attorney for health care
  80. Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT;Medicaid)
  81. Electronic medical records
  82. Embryo research
  83. Emergency contraception
  84. Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
  85. End-stage renal disease (Medicare)
  86. Entitlement
  87. Evidence-based medicine
  88. Experience rating
  89. External review
  90. False Claims Act
  91. Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP)
  92. Federal Food,Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
  93. Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP)
  94. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs)
  95. Fee-for-service
  96. Fetal tissue research
  97. First-dollar coverage
  98. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  99. Formulary
  100. Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)
  101. Freedom of Choice Act
  102. Gag clauses (in managed care)
  103. Gag rule (in abortion)
  104. Gatekeeper
  105. Generic drugs
  106. Genetic discrimination
  107. Global tobacco settlement
  108. Government Accountability Office
  109. Graduate medical education (GME)
  110. Guaranteed issue
  111. Guaranteed renewability
  112. Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
  113. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
  114. Health care fraud and abuse
  115. Health care spending
  116. Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA)
  117. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  118. Health jurisdiction in Congress
  119. Health maintenance organization (HMO)
  120. Health plan
  121. Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
  122. Health professional shortage area (HPSA)
  123. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  124. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
  125. Health Security Act
  126. Health services research
  127. Hill-Burton Act
  128. Home health care
  129. Hospice
  130. Hospital Insurance (HI)
  131. Hospitalist
  132. House Appropriations Committee
  133. House Education and Labor Committee
  134. House Energy and Commerce Committee
  135. House Ways and Means Committee
  136. Human research subject protection
  137. Hyde amendment
  138. ICD-9 codes
  139. Incidence
  140. Income-related premium
  141. Indian Health Service (IHS)
  142. Indirect medical education payments
  143. Individual mandate
  144. Infertility clinic regulation
  145. Informed consent
  146. Institute ofMedicine
  147. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
  148. Intermediary (Medicare)
  149. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
  150. Judicial bypass
  151. Kennedy-Kassebaum law
  152. Kerr-Mills bill
  153. Laborā€“Health and Human Servicesā€“Education Appropriation (Labor-HHS)
  154. Late-termabortion
  155. Lifetime limits
  156. Living wills
  157. Long-term care
  158. Loss ratios
  159. Managed behavioral health care
  160. Managed care
  161. Managed competition
  162. Massachusetts health plan
  163. Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant
  164. Means testing (Medicare)
  165. Medicaid
  166. Medicaid drug rebate program
  167. Medical Device User Fee Act
  168. Medical errors
  169. Medical malpractice
  170. Medical necessity
  171. Medical records confidentiality
  172. Medical savings accounts (MSAs)
  173. Medical underwriting
  174. Medically needy
  175. Medicare
  176. Medicare Advantage
  177. Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
  178. Medicare givebacks
  179. Medicare Modernization Act
  180. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
  181. Medigap insurance
  182. Mental health parity
  183. Mexico City policy
  184. Mifepristone
  185. Migrant health centers
  186. NARAL Pro-Choice America
  187. National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
  188. National Bipartisan Commission on the Future ofMedicare
  189. National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
  190. National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
  191. National Health Service Corps
  192. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  193. National Practitioner Data Bank
  194. National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)
  195. Needle exchange
  196. Nurse practitioner (NP)
  197. Nursing home standards
  198. Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA)
  199. Off-label use
  200. Oregon Health Plan
  201. Organ donations and transplants
  202. Orphan drugs
  203. Outcomes
  204. Parental consent
  205. Parental involvement laws
  206. rental notification
  207. Partial-birth abortion
  208. Participating physician (Medicare)
  209. Patient ā€œdumpingā€
  210. Patientsā€™Bill of Rights (PboR)
  211. Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990
  212. Payers
  213. Pay for performance
  214. Pediatric exclusivity
  215. Pediatric Rule
  216. Peer review
  217. Pepper Commission
  218. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
  219. Pharmacy benefit managers
  220. Physician assistants
  221. Physician Payment Review Commission
  222. Physician self-referrals
  223. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
  224. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
  225. Play or pay
  226. Point of service (POS) plan
  227. Portability
  228. Poverty statistics
  229. Preexisting condition
  230. Preferred provider organization (PPO)
  231. Premiums
  232. Premium support
  233. PrescriptionDrug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
  234. Presidentā€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
  235. Prevalence
  236. Primary care
  237. Primary care physician (PCP)
  238. Prior authorization
  239. Private contracting (Medicare)
  240. Private fee-for-service (Medicare)
  241. Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
  242. Project BioShield
  243. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC)
  244. Prospective payment system (PPS)
  245. Providers
  246. Provider-sponsored organizations (PSOs)
  247. Prudent layperson
  248. Public health
  249. Public Health Service (PHS)
  250. Public Health Service,CommissionedCorps
  251. Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB)
  252. Qualifying Individual Program (QI-1 and QI-2)
  253. Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs)
  254. Quarantine
  255. Rationing
  256. Referral
  257. Regenerative medicine
  258. Reimportation, prescription drug
  259. Report cards
  260. Residency review committees (RRCs)
  261. Resource-based relative value scale
  262. Respite care
  263. Retiree health insurance
  264. Ribicoff children
  265. Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act
  266. Risk adjustment
  267. Roe v.Wade
  268. RU486
  269. Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
  270. Safety net facilities
  271. Secondary care
  272. Secondary Payer (Medicare)
  273. Self-insurance
  274. Self-referral curbs
  275. Senate Appropriations Committee
  276. Senate Finance Committee
  277. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee
  278. Single payer
  279. Small market variation
  280. Social Security Act
  281. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
  282. Somatic cell nuclear transfer
  283. Specialty care
  284. Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMBs)
  285. Spend-down
  286. Spousal impoverishment
  287. State Childrenā€™s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  288. Stem cell research
  289. Stemcells
  290. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  291. Suicide, assisted
  292. Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  293. Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI)
  294. Surgeon general of the United States
  295. Taft-Hartley plans
  296. Tax policy and health care
  297. Technology assessment
  298. TennCare
  299. Tertiary care
  300. Tiered pricing
  301. Title X Family Planning program
  302. Transparency
  303. TRICARE
  304. Tuskegee experiments
  305. Unborn Victims of Violence Act
  306. Uncompensated care
  307. Underinsured
  308. Underwriting
  309. UNFPA
  310. Uninsured
  311. Unions, doctor
  312. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  313. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
  314. Universal coverage
  315. Upper Payment Limit (UPL)
  316. Utilization review (UR)
  317. Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
  318. Veterans health care
  319. Voluntary health agencies (VHAs)
  320. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
  321. WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
  322. Womenā€™s Health, Office of Research on
  323. Zidovudine
  324. Reference Material
  325. Health Policy Time Line
  326. Health Care Policy Acronyms
  327. Congressional Committees Responsible for Health Care Policy
  328. Suggested Readings
  329. Sources of Further Information
  330. Index