Health insurance and Obamacare terms
What does health reform mean to you? Start with these definitions.
C
- cancer insurance policy
- capitation
- carrier
- catastrophic plan
- certificate of insurance
- Certified Application Counselor
- Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- claim
- CO-OP
- COBRA
- coinsurance
- community rating
- comprehensive coverage
- Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP)
- cooperatives
- copayment
- cost-sharing reductions
- cost-sharing subsidies
- credit for prior coverage
- critical illness plan
E
- effective date
- effectuated enrollment
- electronic health record
- electronic medical record
- embedded deductible
- employer mandate
- employer shared-responsibility payment
- employer shared-responsibility provision
- employer tax credits
- employer-sponsored health insurance
- employer-sponsored health plans
- essential benefits
- essential health benefits
- exchange
- exclusion
- explanation of benefits
H
- habilitative coverage
- health care decision counseling
- health care sharing ministry
- health insurance exchange
- health insurance marketplace
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
- health maintenance organization (HMO)
- health reimbursement arrangement (HRA)
- health savings account (HSA)
- high-deductible health plan (HDHP)
I
- in network
- indemnity health plan
- independent practice associations (IPAs)
- individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement (ICHRA)
- individual health insurance
- individual mandate
- individual shared-responsibility payment
- individual shared-responsibility provision
- individual subsidies
- insurance cooperatives
- insurance exchange
P
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
- Platinum plan
- pre-admission certification
- pre-existing condition
- preferred provider organization (PPO)
- premium assistance tax credits
- premium subsidies
- primary care provider (PCP)
- private exchange
- private health insurance
- provider
- public exchange
- public option
S
- SHOP exchange
- short-term disability
- short-term health insurance
- Silver plan
- single-payer system
- small-business health care tax credits
- small-group health insurance
- socialized medicine
- special enrollment period
- specialty drug
- stand-alone prescription drug coverage
- state-mandated benefits
- stop-loss
- student health insurance
- subsidies
- supplemental insurance