Health insurance

Health insurance

Contributors in Health insurance

Health insurance

A measure of a specific component of a health improvement strategy. An indicator can reflect an activity implemented to address a particular health issue, such as the number of children aged 2 years ...

adjusted admissions

Health care; Managed care

A measure of all patient care activity undertaken in a hospital, both inpatient and outpatient. Adjusted admissions are equivalent to the sum of inpatient admissions and an estimate of the volume of ...

mortality

Health care; Managed care

A measure of deaths in a given population, location, or other grouping of interest. In insurance, the relative incidence of death as measured within a given age group.

consumer price index (CPI)

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the core rate of inflation, according to a diverse market basket of goods and services.

consumer price medical index (CPMI)

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the core rate of medical and health care services inflation, according to a diverse market basket of health care goods and medical services.

physician’s work

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the physician’s time, physical effort and skill, mental effort and judgment, and stress from iatrogenic risk associated with providing a medical service; as a component of the Medicare ...

case-mix index

Health care; Managed care

A measure of the relative costliness of treating in an inpatient setting. An index of 1.05, for example, means that the facility’s patients are 5% more costly than average.