Managed care

Managed care

A health care practice intended to streamline services and provide high quality, cost-effective care.

Contributors in Managed care

Managed care

Generally used by HMOs and their medical providers as an indicator of revenue, expenses, or utilization of services per member per year (i.e., “Our patients come in to see the doctor on an average of ...

full-time employee (FTE)

Health care; Managed care

Generally, employees of an employer who work for 1,000 or more hours in a 12-month period, as defined for pension plan purposes in the Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

full-time equivalent (FTE)

Health care; Managed care

Generally, employees of an employer who work for 1,000 or more hours in a 12-month period, as defined for pension plan purposes in the Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

intervention strategy

Health care; Managed care

Generic term used in public health to describe a program, method or policy designed to have an impact on an illness or disease or prevent illness or injury, as in a smoking prevention clinic.

National Standard Format

Health care; Managed care

Generically, this applies to any nationally standardized data format, but it is oft en used in a more limited way to designate the Professional EMC NSF, a 320-byte flat file record format used to ...

release

Health care; Managed care

Give up or abandon an enforceable right.

insurance regulation

Health care; Managed care

Government requirements and restrictions imposed on insurance companies. Because insurance is a business that can affect the financial security of vast numbers of people, government regulation ...