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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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Managed care

time of payment of claims provision

Health care; Managed care

A mandatory, health insurance provision specifying how long an insurance company has to pay claims.

aggregate margin

Health care; Managed care

A margin that compares revenues to expenses for a group of hospitals, rather than a single hospital. Computed by subtracting the sum of expenses for all hospitals in the group from the sum of ...

aftermarket

Health care; Managed care

A market for a health care security either over the counter or on an exchange aft er an initial public offering has been made.

perinatal unit

Health care; Managed care

A maternity and newborn service for the provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum, and neonatal periods with appropriate staff , space, equipment, and supplies. Commonly called ...

annual completion factor

Health care; Managed care

A math factor that adjusts annual expected health insurance claims to annual incurred claims.

utility function

Health care; Managed care

A mathematical function in health insurance statistics that associates a number with each of a set of feasible alternatives.

level debt service

Health care; Managed care

A maturity schedule in which the combined annual amount of principal and interest payments remains relatively constant over the life of the issue.

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