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EANC
Epilepsy Association of North Carolina |
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EAP
Employee Assistance Program |
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Early Intervention
A process used to recognize warning signs for mental health problems and to take early action against factors that put individuals at risk. Early intervention can help children get better in less time and can prevent problems from becoming worse. |
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Early Periodic Screening, Diagnostic And Treatment Services (EPSDT)
Services provided under Medicaid to children under age 21 to determine the need for mental health, developmental disabilities or substance abuse services. Providers are required to provide needed service identified through screening. |
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EAVC
Eligible Assaultive and Violent Children |
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EBT
Evidence-Based Treatment |
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EBTPU
Evaluation and Brief Treatment PTSD Unit |
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ECAC
Exceptional Children's Assistance Center |
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ECI
Early Childhood Intervention |
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Education
Activities designed to increase awareness or knowledge about any and all aspects of mental health, mental illness, developmental disability or substance abuse to individuals and/or groups. See also, PREVENTION. Also, activities or programs designed to ensure that service providers are competent to provide services; identified as best practices. |
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EI
Early Intervention |
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Emergency And Crisis Services
A group of services that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to help during a mental health emergency. Examples include telephone crisis hotlines, suicide hotlines, crisis counseling, crisis residential treatment services, crisis outreach teams, and crisis respite care. |
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Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act (EMTALA), also referred to as the Federal Anti-Patient Dumping Law
An act pertaining to emergency medical situations. EMTALA requires hospitals to provide emergency treatment to individuals, regardless of insurance status and ability to pay (EMTALA, 2002). |
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Emergency Services
Services designed to assist individuals in an acute crisis who are, or are likely to become, dangerous to themselves or others. Emergency Rooms of general hospitals are one example. See also, CRISIS SERVICES. |
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
A service provided to employees by an employer that aim to identify, motivate to seek help and refer for assistance employees whose job performance is impaired or is at risk of impairment because of personal problems, such as medical, family, marital, financial, legal, emotional and substance abuse or dependency problems. |
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Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Enacted in 1974, this is a group of Federal statutes that, among other things, prohibits states from regulating the employee welfare benefit plans, including health plans, of self-insured businesses. ERISA does, however, establish certain regulations related to reporting and disclosure, fiduciary standards, claims review and enforcement. It also provides limited protection against discrimination to ERISA health plan participants. |
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Employment/Vocational Rehabilitation Services
A broad range of services designed to address skills necessary for participation in job-related activities. |
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Enrollee
A person eligible for services from a managed care plan. |
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Enrollment
The total number of covered persons in a health plan. Also refers to the process by which a health plan enrolls groups and individuals for membership or the number of enrollees who sign up in any one group. |
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Entitlement
A program that creates a legal obligation on the federal government to any person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law. Federal spending on an entitlement program is controlled through the program's eligibility criteria and benefit and payment rules, not by the appropriation of a specific level of funding in advance. Entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are also referred to (for federal budget purposes) as direct or mandatory spending. Medicaid is both an individual entitlement and an entitlement to the states that elect to participate. |
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EPSDT
Early Periodic Screening & Diagnostic Testing |
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ER
Emergency Room (medical or behavioral health) |
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ERADC
Eastern Region Assistive Device Clinic |
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Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
See Closed Panel |
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Exploitation
Exploitation means the illegal or improper use of an aged or disabled resident or his resources for another's profit or advantage. |
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Exposure Therapy
A type of treatment that includes gradually bringing patients into contact with a feared object or situation; patients learn that the object or situation can be faced and that avoidance is unnecessary |
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External Quality Review Organization (EQRO)
States are required to contract with an entity that is external to and independent of the State and its managed care contractors to perform a review of the quality of services at least annually. |
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