Across
- 2. taking care of the whole person—body, mind, spirit, heart, and soul—with the goal of giving patients with life-threatening illnesses the best quality of life they can have through the aggressive management of symptoms
- 12. program that measures, reports, and rewards excellence in health care delivery, taking into consideration access, price, quality, efficiency, and alignment of incentives
- 13. for performance: a strategy using financial incentives to reward providers for achieving a range of payer objectives, including delivery efficiencies, submission of data and measures to the payer, and improved quality and patient safety
- 14. prepaid, group-managed care plan that allows subscribers to receive all the medical services they require through a group of affiliated providers; there may be no additional out-of-pocket costs, or subscribers may pay only a small fee, called a copayment
- 15. fixed amount per patient for a specified time period paid to a health care service provider for the delivery of health care services
- 16. health care system in which the government collects all health care fees via taxes and pays out all health care costs
- 17. a type of care provided for caregivers of homebound ill, disabled, or older adult patients
Down
- 1. a prepaid group practice that allows a third-party payer (such as an insurance company) to contract with a group of health care providers to administer services at a lower fee in return for prompt payment and a guaranteed volume of patients and services
- 3. deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) to facilitate the appropriate delivery of quality health care services in an efficient person-centered manner; mechanism to make sure that patients get the right care at the right time in the most efficient and cost-effective manner, by the right person in the right setting
- 4. classification of patients by major medical diagnosis for the purpose of standardizing health care costs
- 5. type of health care settings located in areas that are convenient for people to walk into and receive care; may be provided in hospitals, clinics, or centers
- 6. organizations, family members, and other caregivers that provide medical and nonmedical care for people with chronic illnesses or disabilities who are physically or mentally unable to care for themselves independently
- 7. type of organization that operates in a complex, high-hazard domain for an extended period without serious accidents or catastrophic failures
- 8. system in which a bill is generated and a fee is paid every time a provider does something for a patient
- 9. Type of care organization that is a group of health care entities organized via incentives to deliver the most efficient and high-quality care for the population served
- 10. a type of end-of-life care for persons who are terminally ill
- 11. an organized, high-quality, cost-effective system of health care that influences the selection and use of health care services of a population