Health care law encompasses the laws and regulations governing hospital and health care administration, and an understanding of health care insurance is integral to it. There are significant differences in the types and amount of coverage provided by various private insurance policies, such as HMOs, PPOs, disability insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance, just as there are important differences in the cost to the purchasers of health insurance. There are also public health care insurance programs. Elderly and disabled persons may be eligible for coverage through the federal Medicare program. The joint state-federal Medicaid program helps certain individuals, including disabled persons and low-income elderly persons, pay for long-term care and in-home health care.
Hygiene is an unincorporated community with a U.S. Post Office in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The Hygiene Post Office has the ZIP Code 80533. This community's name stems from a time when it had a sanitarium to work with tuberculosis patients. The sanitarium was started in 1882 Jacob S. Flory and his Church of the Brethren, who had come to the area a few years earlier to work with tuberculosis patients.