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Habilitation
Activities, treatments, services and/or supports that assist the individual to effectively accomplish activities of daily living. |
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Hallucinations
Hallucinations are experiences of sensations that have no source. Some examples of hallucinations include hearing nonexistent voices, seeing nonexistent things, and experiencing burning or pain sensations with no physical cause. |
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HBPC
Home Based Primary Care |
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HC
Health Choice |
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HCBS
Home and Community Based Services |
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HCFA
Health Care Financing Administration |
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HCHV
Health Care for Homeless Veterans |
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HCMI
Homeless Chronically Mentally Ill (veterans program) |
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Health Care Personnel
Unlicensed personnel providing hands-on care (to residents or patients), working in adult care homes, hospitals, home care agencies, nursing pools, hospices and nursing facilities. Unlicensed health care personnel are defined as an adult care personal aide or supervisor, a nurse aide, an in-home nurse aide or an in-home personal care aide. Reference NC General Statute 131E-256(b)(c). |
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Health Care Personnel Registry
A registry containing the names of unlicensed health care personnel working in adult care homes, home care agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and nursing pools who have substantiated findings or investigations pending pertaining to abuse or neglect of a resident, misappropriation of resident or facility property, fraud against a resident or a facility or diversion of drugs belonging to a resident or a facility. This registry also contains the names of nurse aides listed on the Nurse Aide I Registry with substantiated findings. |
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Health Care Power of Attorney
A legal document that gives the person you designate (your health care agent) broad powers to make health care decisions, including mental health treatment decisions, for you should you become unable to make informed healthcare decisions for yourself. |
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Health Choice
The health insurance program for children in North Carolina that provides comprehensive health insurance coverage to uninsured low-income children. Financing comes from a mix of federal, state, and other non-appropriated funds. |
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Health Employer Data And Information Set (HEDIS)
A set of HMO performance measures that are maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. HEDIS data is collected annually and provides an informational resource for the public on issues of health plan quality. |
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Health Insurance Flexibility And Accountability (HIFA)
A Medicaid and States Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) demonstration waiver that offers States greater flexibility in setting benefits and cost-sharing for some groups of Medicaid beneficiaries. Under this policy, States can use section 1115 waivers to cut benefits and/or increase cost-sharing for certain Medicaid beneficiaries and invest resulting saving into expanding coverage of uninsured individuals through the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. |
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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA)
A federal Act that protects people who change jobs, are self-employed, or who have pre-existing conditions. The Act aims to make sure that prospective or current service consumers are not discriminated against based on health status. |
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Health Insuring Organization (HIO)
An entity that contracts on a prepaid, capitated risk basis to provide comprehensive health services to recipients. |
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Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
A type of managed care plan that acts as both insurer and provider of a comprehensive set of health care services to an enrolled population. Services are furnished through a network of providers. |
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Heat Pain
Heat pain arises from warm or hot temperatures. |
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HEDIS
The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set is a set of performance measures developed to assess the quality of managed care across public and private sectors. It is a product of the National Committee on Quality Assurance. |
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HHS
Health and Human Services |
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HI
Hearing Impairment |
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HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (affects confidentiality and data security) |
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HIS
Health Information System |
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HIV
Human Immune-deficiency Virus |
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HMI
Homeless Mentally Ill |
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HMO
Health Maintenance Organization |
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Home And Community Based Services (HCBS)
Refers to a federal waiver of Medicaid requirements permitted under the Social Security Act that permits payment for services not ordinarily covered by the Medicaid state plan or to be delivered in a different amount, duration, and scope than services offered by the Medicaid state plan. Federal regulations under the waiver may target specific groups of individuals, such as persons with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury, or chronic mental illness, or target specific geographic areas of a state. It also permits the state to set different financial eligibility limits so that additional persons may become eligible for Medicaid through the waiver. |
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Homeless
A person who lives on the street or in a shelter for the homeless. |
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Horizontal Consolidation
When local health plans (or local hospitals) merge. This practice was popular in the late 1990s and was used to expand regional business presence. |
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Hospital Affiliation
A contract between an MCO and a hospital in which the hospital agrees to provide inpatient benefits to the MCO's beneficiaries according to terms negotiated and a (usually discounted) payment schedule. |
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Hours Per Patient Day (HPPD)
Term used to show hours of nursing staff per patient per day on inpatient care units. HPPD may change from day to day, based on intensity of patient needs, numbers of patients on a ward, average number of admissions/discharges and any other factors that impact the amount of direct care staff needed to provide safe and effective care to patients in hospitals. |
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Housing Services
Assistance to clients/patients in finding and maintaining appropriate housing arrangements. |
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HRI
High Risk Intervention |
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HRI-P
High Risk Intervention Ð Periodic |
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HRI-R
High Risk Intervention -Residential |
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HUD
Housing and Urban Development |
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HUD Section 8 Vouchers
Federal government's major programs for assisting very low income families, elderly and people with disabilities to rent decent, safe and sanitary housing in the private market. |
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HUD-VASH
Department of Housing and Urban Development VA Supportive Housing program |
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