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The maximum amount of money an insurance company can charge for coverage.
Industry:Health care
A type of HMO where participating providers receive a fixed payment in advance for providing particular healthcare services.
Industry:Health care
Healthcare services that prevent disease or its consequences. It includes primary prevention to keep people from getting sick (such as immunizations), secondary prevention to detect early disease (such as Pap smears) and tertiary prevention to keep ill people or those at high risk of disease from getting sicker (such as helping someone with lung disease to quit smoking).
Industry:Health care
Basic or general routine office medical care, usually from an internist, obstetrician-gynecologist, family practitioner, or pediatrician.
Industry:Health care
Health insurance that is provided by insurance companies such as commercial insurers and Blue Cross plans, self-funded plans sponsored by employers, HMOs or other managed care arrangements.
Industry:Health care
An individual or institution who provides medical care, including a physician, hospital, skilled nursing facility, or intensive care facility.
Industry:Health care
A systematic process to improve quality of healthcare by monitoring quality, finding out what is not working, and fixing the problems of healthcare delivery.
Industry:Health care
These programmes were developed by several states in the 1970's to establish in advance the amount that hospitals would be paid no matter how high or low their costs actually were in any particular year. (Also known as hospital rate setting or prospective reimbursement programs)
Industry:Health care
The process through which a primary care provider authorises a patient to see a specialist to receive additional care.
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