Managed care

Managed care

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

Industry: Health care

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medi-cal

Health care; Managed care

A federal, state-operated and administered program that provides medical benefits for certain low-income persons. This is California’s version of the federal Medicaid program.

dispensing fee

Health care; Managed care

A fee charge for filling a drug prescription.

death trauma coverage

Health care; Managed care

A few health insurance funds have this coverage as an add-on benefit to some of their hospital or extras cover. Conditions and benefits vary widely between fund policies.

manual

Health care; Managed care

A field book containing rates, classifications, and underwriting rules for a particular insurance company. The public cost per unit of health, disability, or long-term care insurance.

A file designed to jog one’s memory and call attention to something at a certain time. In life health or other kinds of insurance, the policyexpiration and premium-due tickets are examples of this ...

leverage

Health care; Managed care

A financial condition brought about by the assumption of a high percentage of debt in relation to the equity in a health care corporation’s capital structure. Leverage is the use of borrowed money.