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| Copayment | an amount paid by the patient for a specific service |
| Delivery System | a facility or organization that provides health care services |
| Interdependence | is the connection among all areas and levels of workers in health care team |
| Managed Care | offers medical services at a reduced rate through a network of health care providers. 3 types - HMOs, PPOs, & POS plans |
| Non-Profit Agency System | Supported by donations, membership fees,fundraisers, and government |
| Cost Containment | the effort to reduce health care expenses. Methods of this include outpatient services, preventive care, and energy conservation. |
| Epidemiology | the study of diseases |
| Line of Authority | determines a workers position in a facility's organizational structure |
| Medicaid | a federal insurance program administered by states for people with low incomes. |
| World Health Organization | an international agency sponsored by the United Nations. Their goal is all people throughout the world are given the highest level of health care. |
| Deductible | the amount that must be paid by the patient before the insurance agency will begin making payments. They are paid on a yearly basis |
| Indemnity Insurance | patients pay health care expenses out of pocket, Afterwards the insurance agency will reimburse the patient for the expenses. |
| Long Term Care (LTC) | provides care to people with long standing conditions. Most provide care for elderly patients, but some provide care to people with disabilities or Rehab. |
| Medicare | a federal insurance program for people over age 65 or people with disabilities. |
| System | a group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole. |
| Anatomy | Anatomy is the study of the body structures of an organism and their location |
| Controls | In the systems theory, controls are anything that pinpoint problems in a system before the output in complete |
| Enviroment | is the circumstance and condition in which a system exists. This is not part of the system, but the system does rely on the it for resources |
| Feedback Loop | a process of monitoring output to determine whether or not the system is working. It should be evaluated and then but back into the system to improve the future outputs |
| Goal | a measurable activity that must be completed to ensure that a mission is accomplished. |
| Input | Is anything that enters a system. This could included money, resources, efforts and materials |
| Mission | the specific, stated purpose of a system. |
| Output | the final product or service provided by a system |
| Through | process that converts the input into a final product or servce |
