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HEALTH TERM - LTC

Long-Term Care (LTC)

Definition: A set of health care, personal care and social services required by persons who have lost, or never acquired, some degree of functional capacity (e.g., the chronically ill, aged, disabled, or retarded) in an institution or at home, on a long-term basis.

The term is often used more narrowly to refer only to long-term institutional care such as that provided in nursing homes, homes for the retarded and mental hospitals.

Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, or in various types of facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Most long-term care is custodial care.

Medicare doesn't pay for this type of care if this is the only kind of care a person needs.

However, Medicaid and long-term care insurance plans do provide some coverage for long-term care.

Ambulatory services such home health care, which can also be provided on a long-term basis, are seen as alternatives to long-term institutional care.

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HEALTH TERM - PRE-EXISTING CONDITION

Definition: A medical condition developed prior to issuance of a health insurance policy that may result in the limitation in the contract on coverage or benefits.

Normally this is defined as a health problem for which the new enrollee received health care services before the date that the new health plan benefit begins.

Some policies exclude coverage of such conditions and the exclusion may continue for a specific period of time or indefinitely. Federally qualified HMOs cannot limit coverage for pre-existing conditions.

New statutes in 1997 and 1998 altered the freedom other health plans have enjoyed in setting preexisting time limits.
Certification of prior coverage may mean new insurers would need to waive preexisting clauses for some subscribers.