enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Health insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the...

    The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was designed primarily to extend health coverage to those without it by expanding Medicaid, creating financial incentives for employers to offer coverage, and requiring those without employer or public coverage to purchase insurance in newly created health insurance exchanges. This requirement for almost all ...

  3. Health insurance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance

    A health insurance policy is a insurance contract between an insurance provider (e.g. an insurance company or a government) and an individual or his/her sponsor (that is an employer or a community organization). The contract can be renewable (annually, monthly) or lifelong in the case of private insurance.

  4. Flame test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test

    A flame test is relatively quick test for the presence of some elements in a sample. The technique is archaic and of questionable reliability, but once was a component of qualitative inorganic analysis .

  5. Current Procedural Terminology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Procedural_Terminology

    Despite the copyrighted nature of the CPT code sets, the use of the code is mandated by almost all health insurance payment and information systems, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the data for the code sets appears in the Federal Register. It is necessary for most users of the CPT code (principally providers ...

  6. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care...

    In December 2008, the Institute for America's Future, together with the chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, Pete Stark, launched a proposal from Jacob Hacker, co-director of the U.C. Berkeley School of Law Center on Health, that in essence said that the government should offer a public health insurance plan to compete on a level ...

  7. Immediately dangerous to life or health - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediately_dangerous_to...

    The OSHA definition is arguably broad enough to include oxygen-deficient circumstances in the absence of "airborne contaminants", as well as many other chemical, thermal, or pneumatic hazards to life or health (e.g., pure helium, super-cooled or super-heated air, hyperbaric or hypo-baric or submerged chambers, etc.).

  8. Long-term care insurance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_care_insurance

    Some 7 million individuals have some form of long-term care insurance. The vast majority have what is referred to as traditional, or health-based, LTC insurance. The opposite is true for new policy sales. Some 350,000 new policies are sold each year with 84 percent being linked-benefit or life insurance policies that include an LTC benefit. [22]

  9. Nondestructive testing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondestructive_testing

    Nondestructive testing methods are routinely applied in industries where a failure of a component would cause significant hazard or economic loss, such as in transportation, pressure vessels, building structures, piping, and hoisting equipment.