Health insurance

Health insurance

Contributors in Health insurance

Health insurance

A device used as artificial substitutes to replace a missing natural part of the body; also a device to improve the performance of a natural function. Prosthetic appliances do not include eyeglasses, ...

ad valorem tax

Health care; Managed care

A direct tax calculated “according to value” of hospital property. Such tax is based on an assigned valuation (market or assessed) of real hospital property and, in certain cases, on a valuation of ...

nongroup

Health care; Managed care

A directly enrolled cohort without affiliation for medical or other insurance.

disability income

Health care; Managed care

A disability benefit provided by a specific health insurance contract that pays a regular monthly income if the insured is disabled by sickness or accident. Also, under certain life insurance ...

disability benefits law

Health care; Managed care

A disability benefits system, established by statute, under which employees, temporarily out of work because of nonoccupational disability caused by either illness or injury, receive certain ...

temporary-partial disability

Health care; Managed care

A disability causing a partial loss of earning power, but from which full recovery can be expected.

short-term disability income policy

Health care; Managed care

A disability income policy with benefits payable for a limited period of time, and oft en with a waiting period as short as 30 days before benefits become payable.