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- See Plasmodium.
- Browse Related Terms: Clinical cure, Falciparum, Knowlesi, Malariae, Ovale, Plasmodium, Radical cure, Radical treatment, Relapse, Vivax
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A Federal law that guarantees up to 12 weeks of job protected leave for certain employees when they need to take time off due to serious illness or disability, to have or adopt a child, or to care for another family member. When on leave under FMLA, you can continue coverage under your job-based plan.
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A model in which systems of care under Ryan White Part D are designed to address the needs of PLWHA and affected family members as a unit, providing or arranging for a full range of services. Family structures may range from the traditional, biological family unit to non-traditional family units with partners, significant others, and unrelated caregivers.
- Browse Related Terms: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Capacity, Core Services, Early Intervention Services (EIS), Family Centered Care, Health Care for the Homeless Health Center, Health Centers, Home and Community Based Care, Medicaid Spend-down, Part B, Part C, Part D, Part F (SPNS) (Special Projects of National Significance), Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Act of 2009 (Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program), Service Gaps, Support Services, Unmet Need
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Brand name of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a drug used against malaria. Its value has been compromised by the emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites.
- Browse Related Terms: antibiotic, Antimicrobial agents, Antimicrobial resistance, Aralen, Chloroquine, Cryptic malaria, DEET, Diurnal, drug resistance, Fansidar, Halofantrine, Icterus, prophylaxis, Rigor, Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, vaccine
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Fast Stats is designed to allow quick and easy access to key statistics for all major cancer sites by age, sex, race, and geographic area. The statistics include incidence, mortality, prevalence, and the probability of developing or dying from cancer.
- Browse Related Terms: Age-Adjusted Rate, Age-Specific Rate, Crude Probability of Death, Crude Rate, Death Rate, Fast Stats, Life Tables, mortality, relative survival rate, standard error, Standard Million Population, Standard Population, Surveillance Data (Cancer), Survival, Cause-specific, Survival, Net, Survival, Observed, Survival, Period, Survival, Relative
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The action date tells when an FDA regulatory action, such as an original or supplemental approval, took place.
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This number, also known as the NDA (New Drug Application) number, is assigned by FDA staff to each application for approval to market a new drug in the United States. One drug can have more than one application number if it has different dosage forms or routes of administration
- 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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A test to check for hidden blood in stool. Fecal refers to stool. Occult means hidden. (See also Stool Test.)
- Browse Related Terms: colon, Fecal occult blood test (FOBT), Gastroenterologist, gastrointestinal tract, intestine, Rectum, Screening test, Stool, stool test
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A measure of income level issued annually by the Department of Health and Human Services. Federal Poverty Levels are used to determine your eligibility for certain programs and benefits.
A measure of income level issued annually by the Department of Health and Human Services. Federal poverty levels are used to determine your eligibility for certain programs and benefits.
- Browse Related Terms: Benefits, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Dependent Coverage, Disability, Domestic Partnership, Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services (EPSDT), Federal Poverty Level (FPL), fee, Health Coverage, Health Insurance Marketplace, Maryland Children’s Health Program (MCHP), Medicaid, Medicaid/Medical Assistance, Metal Level, State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), State Medical Assistance Office, Subsidized Coverage, TRICARE
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Federally funded nonprofit health centers or clinics that serve medically underserved areas and populations. Federally qualified health centers provide primary care services regardless of your ability to pay. Services are provided on a sliding scale fee based on your ability to pay.
- Browse Related Terms: Capitation, claim, External Review, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Fee-for-Service, Health Care Workforce Incentive, Home Health Care, Internal review, Member Survey Results, Original Medicare, Penalty, Uncompensated Care, Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)
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Any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village or community that the Department of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe.
- Browse Related Terms: Eligibility Assessment, Eligibility determination, Eligible Immigration Status, Federally Recognized Tribe, Grievance, Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), Notice, State Insurance Department, TTY
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- If someone doesn't have a health plan that qualifies as minimum essential coverage, he or she may have to pay a fee that increases every year: from 1% of income (or $95 per adult, whichever is higher) in 2014 to 2.5% of income (or $695 per adult) in 2016. The fee for children is half the adult amount. The fee is paid on the 2014 federal income tax form, which is completed in 2015. People with very low incomes and others may be eligible for waivers.
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A method in which doctors and other health care providers are paid for each service performed. Examples of services include tests and office visits.
A system in which you pay the provider for each single service or procedure.
- Browse Related Terms: Capitation, claim, External Review, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Fee-for-Service, Health Care Workforce Incentive, Home Health Care, Internal review, Member Survey Results, Original Medicare, Penalty, Uncompensated Care, Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)
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A report that is required to be submitted within 90 days after the end of the budget period that serves as documentation of the financial status of grants according to the official accounting records of the grantee organization.
- Browse Related Terms: Data Terms, Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA), Financial Status Report (FSR - Form 269), representative, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR), Ryan White Program Data Report (RDR), Surveillance Report, Transitional Grant Area (TGA)
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The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive five years after they were diagnosed with or treated for a disease, such as cancer. The disease may or may not have come back.
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A benefit program that offers employees a choice between various benefits including cash, life insurance, health insurance, vacations, retirement plans, and child care. Although a common core of benefits may be required, you can choose how your remaining benefit dollars are to be allocated for each type of benefit from the total amount promised by the employer. Sometimes you can contribute more for additional coverage. Also known as a Cafeteria plan or IRS 125 Plan.
- Browse Related Terms: COBRA, COBRA coverage, Employer Choice, Employee Choice, Employer Contribution, Employer or Union Retiree Plans, Flexible Benefits Plan, Fully Insured Job-based Plan, Group Health Plan, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Job-based Health Plan, Large Group Health Plan, Medicare Hospital Insurance Tax, Premium, Self-insured, Self-Insured Plan, Small Employer, Third Party Administrator (TPA), Wellness Programs, Worker's compensation
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Also called proctosigmoidoscopy. A procedure in which the doctor looks inside the rectum and the lower portion of the colon (sigmoid colon) through a flexible, lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope. The doctor may collect samples of tissue or cells for closer examination and remove some polyps within view.
- Browse Related Terms: Anus, Cancer, Colonoscope, Colonoscopy, colorectal, double-contrast barium enema, Flexible sigmoidoscopy, polyp, Sigmoidoscope
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An arrangement you set up through your employer to pay for many of your out-of-pocket medical expenses with tax-free dollars. These expenses include insurance copayments and deductibles, and qualified prescription drugs, insulin and medical devices. You decide how much of your pre-tax wages you want taken out of your paycheck and put into an FSA. You don’t have to pay taxes on this money. Your employer’s plan sets a limit on the amount you can put into an FSA each year.
- Browse Related Terms: Annual Deductible Combined, Brand Name (Drugs), Donut Hole, Medicare Prescription Drug, Drug Formulary, Drug List, Essential Benefits, Excluded Drugs, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Formulary, Generic Drug, Generic Drugs, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medicare Prescription Drug Donut Hole, Name-brand Drug, Out-of-Pocket Estimate, Over-the-Counter Drug, Prescription Drug, Prescription Drug Coverage, Prescription Drugs
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Federal agency within HHS responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biologics, vaccines, and medical devices used (among others) in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV infection, AIDS, and AIDS-related opportunistic infections. The FDA also works with the blood banking industry to safeguard the nation's blood supply.
- Browse Related Terms: AIDS Service Organization (ASO), Antiretroviral, Co-morbidity, Community-based Organization (CBO), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), High-Risk Insurance Pool, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), Multiply Diagnosed, Opportunistic Infection (OI) or Opportunistic Condition, prophylaxis, Salvage Therapy
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- See "drug formulary."
The list of drugs covered fully or in part by a health plan.
A list of prescription drugs covered by a prescription drug plan or another insurance plan offering prescription drug benefits. Also called a drug list.
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