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Managed care
A health care practice intended to streamline services and provide high quality, cost-effective care.
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mortgage disability insurance
Health care; Managed care
A specific type of disability income insurance that pays benefits (oft en directly to the mortgage holder) during a total disability of the insured, or until the mortgage is paid up.
fee-screen year
Health care; Managed care
A specified period of time in which small market insurance recognized fees pertain.
public health
Health care; Managed care
Activities that society does collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. This includes organized community efforts to prevent, identify, preempt, and counter threats to the ...
payment safeguards
Health care; Managed care
Activities to prevent and recover inappropriate Medicare benefit payments including Medicare secondary payer, medical review or utilization review, provider audits, and fraud and abuse detection.
partial hospitalization program (PHP)
Health care; Managed care
Acute level of psychiatric treatment normally provided for 4 or more hours per day. Normally includes group therapies and activities with homogeneous patient populations. Is used as a referral ...
disability income rider
Health care; Managed care
Addition to a life or health insurance policy stating that when the policyholder becomes disabled for 6 months, the premiums for enforcement may be waived pending certain policy provisions.
