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

A term used to describe a life or health insurance general agent or agency manager, usually pertaining to some measure of growth in production or gross sales, and usually pertaining to the type of ...

medically unnecesary care (MUC)

Health care; Managed care

A term used to describe that part of a stay in a health care facility, as determined by a case manager, as excessive to diagnose and treat a medical condition in accordance with the standards of good ...

autoassignment

Health care; Managed care

A term used with Medicaid mandatory managed care enrollment plans. Medicaid recipients who do not specify their choice for a contracted plan within a specified time frame are assigned to a plan by ...

enrollment broker

Health care; Managed care

A third-party organization that enrolls and educates Medicaid members and provides services to encourage the appropriate use of Medicaid managed care services.

cure provision

Health care; Managed care

A time bomb or statute of limitations to remedy a health care dispute and avoid contract termination.

medicaid

Health care; Managed care

A Title 19 Federal program, run and partially funded by individual states to provide medical benefits to certain low-income people. The state, under broad federal guidelines, determines what benefits ...