How to beef up your health coverage if your employer offers 'skinny' or unaffordable benefits
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- ACA-compliant coverage
- accident supplement
- accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- accountable care organization
- actuary
- admitting privilege
- advance care planning consultations
- advance directive
- advance premium tax credit
- adverse selection
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- agent
- American Rescue Plan
- annual limit
- association health plan
C
- California v. Texas (Texas v. Azar)
- 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
- cost-sharing reduction
- cost-sharing subsidy
- credit for prior coverage
- critical illness plan
E
- easy enrollment program
- 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 health benefits
- exclusion
- explanation of benefits
H
- habilitative coverage
- health care decision counseling
- health care sharing ministry
- health insurance
- health insurance deductible
- health insurance exchange
- health insurance marketplace
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
- health insurance premium
- health maintenance organization (HMO)
- health reimbursement arrangement (HRA)
- health savings account (HSA)
- healthcare
- healthcare rationing
- high-deductible health plan (HDHP)
M
- major medical health insurance
- managed care
- maximum benefit dollar limit
- Medicaid
- Medicaid redetermination
- Medicaid work requirement
- medical discount plan
- medical flexible spending account
- medical loss ratio
- medical underwriting
- Medicare
- metal plans
- minimum essential coverage
- modified adjusted gross income (MAGI)
S
- self-insured health plan
- SHOP exchange
- short-term health insurance
- Silver plan
- single-payer system
- small-group health insurance
- socialized medicine
- special enrollment period
- specialty drug
- stand-alone prescription drug coverage
- step therapy
- stop-loss
- student health insurance
- subsidies
- supplemental insurance