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Rules that state that federal agencies must make their messages to the public available to people with disabilities.
- Browse Related Terms: 508 Compliance, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Georgia Healthcare-Acquired Infections Advisory Committee (GHAIAC), Health Resources Services Agency (HRSA), Office of Healthcare Quality (OHQ), Preventable
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An Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) contains data that, when submitted to FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Generic Drugs, provides for the review and ultimate approval of a generic drug product. Generic drug applications are called "abbreviated" because they are generally not required to include preclinical (animal) and clinical (human) data to establish safety and effectiveness. Instead, a generic applicant must scientifically demonstrate that its product is bioequivalent (i.e., performs in the same manner as the innovator drug). Once approved, an applicant may manufacture and market the generic drug product to provide a safe, effective, low cost alternative to the American public.
- Browse Related Terms: Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) Number, application, Application Number, Approval Letter, Biologic License Application (BLA), Company, FDA Application Number, New Drug Application (NDA), New Drug Application (NDA) Number, Product Number, Review, Review Classification
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This six-digit number is assigned by FDA staff to each application for approval to market a generic drug in the United States.
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An ”access fee” is a specific amount that a person covered under the policy must pay each time certain services are used or received. The access fee is not part of the deductible amount, and is not usually reimbursed by the health insurance carrier.
- Browse Related Terms: Access Fee, Catastrophic Health Insurance, Catastrophic Health Plan, Co-insurance, Co-pay, Co-payment, Coinsurance, Cost Sharing, Deductible, Doctor Visits, Limited Benefit Health Insurance Policies, Medicare Supplement (Medigap) Insurance, Out-of-Pocket Costs, Out-of-Pocket Limit, Out-of-Pocket Maximum, Out-of-pocket maximum/limit, Stop-Loss
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A group of health care providers who give coordinated care, chronic disease management, and thereby improve the quality of care patients get. The organization's payment is tied to achieving health care quality goals and outcomes that result in cost savings.
- Browse Related Terms: Accountable Care Organization, Chronic Disease Management, Disease managem ent, Essential Health Benefits, prevention, preventive, Preventive Medicine, Preventive Services, Well-baby and Well-child Visits
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If a Marketplace health plan is approved, this is the “seal of approval” given to the plan by an independent organization to show that the plan meets national quality standards.
- Browse Related Terms: Accreditation, Biosimilar Biological Products, Denial, Experimental and/or Investigational Medical Services, Not Yet Accredited (Health Plan), Pre-authorization, Preauthorization, Prior Authorization, Provider
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A condition in which food or liquid leaks backwards from the stomach into the tube from the mouth to the stomach (the esophagus). Also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, the condition can irritate the esophagus, causing heartburn and other symptoms.
- Browse Related Terms: Acid Reflux, Allergy, Anesthesia, Bipolar Disorder, Complication, Hepatitis B, hysterectomy, Long-term Care, Medication/Medicine, Morbidity, prognosis, Surgery
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A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.
- Browse Related Terms: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Epidemic, Epidemiologic Profile, Epidemiology, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease, incidence, Incidence Rate, Prevalence, Prevalence Rate, reliability, surveillance, Target Population
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An active ingredient is any component that provides pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals.
- Browse Related Terms: Active Ingredient, agonist, antagonist, Biological Product, Buprenorphine, Detoxification, Drug, methadone, Opioid, Therapeutic Biological Product
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The demonstration by an insurer that the premiums collected are reasonable, given the benefits provided under the plan or that the distribution of premiums among policyholders are proportional to the distribution of their expected costs, subject to limitations of state and federal law. Minn. Stat. 62A.02 requires companies to file rates for individual health insurance products and provide certain actuarial justification. The actuarial justification is reviewed before rates are approved.
- Browse Related Terms: Actuarial justification, Adjusted community rating, Age Rating, Annual Limit, Community rating, Guaranteed Issue, Guaranteed renewability, Guaranteed Renewal, Health Status Rating, Interstate compact, Lifetime limit, Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), Multi-state plan, Qualified health plan, Rate Review, Rating Factors, Rescission, Risk Adjustment, Small group market
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The percentage of total average costs for covered benefits that a plan will cover. For example, if a plan has an actuarial value of 70%, on average, you would be responsible for 30% of the costs of all covered benefits. However, you could be responsible for a higher or lower percentage of the total costs of covered services for the year, depending on your actual health care needs and the terms of your insurance policy.
The percentage of total average costs for covered benefits that a plan will cover. For example, if a plan has an actuarial value of 70%, on average, you would be responsible for 30% of the costs of all covered benefits. However, you could be responsible for a higher or lower percentage of the total costs of covered services for the year, depending on your actual health care needs and the terms of your insurance policy.
- Browse Related Terms: Actuarial Value, Benefit Level, Coordination of Benefits, Dental Coverage, Excluded Services, Hospital Outpatient Care, Major Medical Health Insurance, Net Capital Gains, Subsidy, Total Cost Estimate (for health coverage)
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Providing emergency services and general medical and surgical treatment.
- Browse Related Terms: Acute Care, Care Provider, Community Acquired Infection, Consumer / healthcare consumer, Critical Access Hospital (CAH), diarrhea, Health Literacy, Healthcare Associated Infection, Healthcare provider, Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI), Home care, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Long Term Acute Care Facility or Hospital (LTAC), Long-term care facility (LTCF), Medical Procedure, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Spectrum of Healthcare
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One step below a hospital, an acute care facility gives advanced medical and nursing services to bring you back to health.
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A facility/hospital that provides a wide array of specialized medical, surgical, and/or psychological servies.
- Browse Related Terms: Acute Care Facility, Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC), Ambulatory Surgical Center, Ambulatory Surgical Facility, Confidence Intervals, HAI Prevention Collaborative, Iatrogenic Pneumothorax, Incidence Rate, Infection Rate, International Classification of Diseases - 9th revision - Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), monitor, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), Nosocomial, Prevalence Rate, SSI Rate, Standardized infection ratio (SIR), Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) Statistical Method
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A chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite serious adverse consequences, and by long-lasting changes in the brain.
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A way of pricing insurance where premiums are not based upon a policyholder's health status, but may be based upon other factors, such as age and geographic location. The ACA requires the use of adjusted community rating, with maximum variation for age of 3:1 and for tobacco use of 1.5:1.
- Browse Related Terms: Actuarial justification, Adjusted community rating, Age Rating, Annual Limit, Community rating, Guaranteed Issue, Guaranteed renewability, Guaranteed Renewal, Health Status Rating, Interstate compact, Lifetime limit, Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), Multi-state plan, Qualified health plan, Rate Review, Rating Factors, Rescission, Risk Adjustment, Small group market
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Entity that functions to assist the grantee, consortium, or other planning body in carrying out administrative activities (e.g., disbursing program funds, developing reimbursement and accounting systems, developing Requests for Proposals [RFPs], monitoring contracts).
- Browse Related Terms: Administrative or Fiscal Agent, Consortium/HIV Care Consortium, continuum of care, Part A, Planning Council, Planning Process, Priority Setting, Quality, Reflectiveness, Resource Allocation, Technical Assistance (TA)
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The Affordable Care Act provides a new tax credit to help you afford health coverage purchased through the Marketplace. Advance payments of the tax credit can be used right away to lower your monthly premium costs. If you qualify, you may choose how much advance credit payments to apply to your premiums each month, up to a maximum amount. If the amount of advance credit payments you get for the year is less than the tax credit you're due, you'll get the difference as a refundable credit when you file your federal income tax return. If your advance payments for the year are more than the amount of your credit, you must repay the excess advance payments with your tax return. Also called premium tax credit.
- Browse Related Terms: Advanced Premium Tax Credit, Banding, Catastrophic Plan, Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, dependent, Hardship Exemption, Health Savings Account (HSA), High deductible health plan (HDHP), High-Cost Excise Tax, Individual mandate, MinnesotaCare, Payment Frequency, Premium Tax Credit, Risk corridor
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to establish and operate a health insurance exchange by 2014, or to participate in a federal exchange. Maryland opted to create Maryland Health Connection, a marketplace for Marylanders to shop for and enroll in health plans.
The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law was enacted in two parts: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 and was amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on March 30, 2010. The name “Affordable Care Act” is used to refer to the final, amended version of the law.
- Browse Related Terms: Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Grandfathered, Grandfathered Health Plan, Grandfathered plan, New Plan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Reconciliation Act
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This is the title usually given to the federal health reform passed in March 2010 and collectively refers to the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordability Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Reconciliation Act).
- Browse Related Terms: Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Grandfathered, Grandfathered Health Plan, Grandfathered plan, New Plan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Reconciliation Act
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- Employer coverage is considered affordable - as it relates to the Advanced Premium Tax Credit (APTC) - if the employee’s share of the annual premium for self-only coverage is no greater than 9.5% of annual household income. Starting in 2014, individuals offered employer-sponsored coverage that’s affordable and provides minimum value won’t be eligible for a premium tax credit.
- Browse Related Terms: Affordable coverage (as it relates to APTC), Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), Full-Time Employee, Full-Time Equivalent, Minimum value, Multi-Employer Plan, Open Enrollment, Plan, Tax credit, Vision or Vision Coverage