| Show guaranteed issue Requirement that health plans offer coverage to all businesses during some period each year Any combination of health education and related organizational political and economic interventions designed to facilitate behavioral and environmental adaptations that will improve or protect health health service area health education Any combination of learning opportunities designed to facilitate voluntary adaptations of behavior in individuals groups or Geographic area designated on the basis of such factors as geography political boundaries population and health resources for the effective planning and development of health services communities conducive to health health status health insurance purchasing cooperatives HIPCs Public or private organizations which secure The state of health ofspecified individual group or population It may be measured by health insurance coverage for the workers obtaining proxies such as peoplesubjective assessments of their health by health maintenance organization HMO An entity with four essential attributes by using the incidence or prevalence of of all member employers an organized system providing health care ingeographic area which accepts the one or more indicators of mortality and morbidity in the population such as longevity or maternal and infant mortality or major diseases communicable chronic or nutritional responsibility provide or otherwise assure the delivery of an agreed-upon set of holism basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services to voluntarily Refers to the integration of mind body and enrolled group of persons and for which services the entity is reimbursed through predetermined fixed periodic prepayment made for or on behalf of each person or family unit enrolled The payment is fixed without regard to the amounts of actual services provided to an individual enrollee spirit ofperson and emphasizes the importance of perceiving the individual regarding physical symptoms in whole sense Holism teaches that the health care system must extend its focus beyond solely the physical aspects of disease and particular organ in question to concern itseff with the whole person and the Individual practice associations involving interrelationships between the emotional included under the definition social spiritual as well as physical implications of disease and health groups or independent physicians can be designed by the National Committee for horizontal integration Merging of two or more firms at the same level of production in some formal legal relationship eemployers to accurately trend health plan hospice Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set HEDIS core set of performance measures Quality Assurance to enable plans and performance incomparative manner health promotion program which provides palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families either directly or on consulting basis with the patientphysician 162 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
