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A listing of accepted charges or established allowances for specified medical or dental procedures. It usually represents either a physician’s or third party’s standard or maximum charges for the listed procedures.  

A standardized licensure test for physicians developed by the Federation of State Medical Boards of the U.S. for potential use on a nationwide basis. In fact, some 48 States now use the FLEX as their test for licensure, although they vary in the score required for licensure. The FLEX exam is based on test material…

An official, daily publication of the Federal government providing a uniform system for making available to the public proposed and final rules, legal notices, and similar proclamations, orders and documents having general applicability and legal effect. The Register publishes material from all Federal agencies. A publication that makes available to the public proposed and final…

One of three health insurance plans making up the present administration’s 1974 proposal for national health insurance, the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan. This plan would replace Medicare and provide health insurance coverage for persons 65 and older. Although many of the features of FHIP are the same as Medicare, there were changes made in the…

The group health insurance program for Federal employees; the largest employer-sponsored contributory health insurance program in the world. It is voluntary for the employees; about 80 percent of those eligible being covered. At present it covers 8.8 million persons—2.8 million Federal employees and annuitants and their 6 million dependents. It was established under the Federal…

A physician who assumes continuing responsibility for supervising the health and coordinating the care of all family members, regardless of age. Often viewed as low-level generalists, such physicians are now trained as specialists whose work demands specific skills. These skills include functioning as medical managers, advocates, educators and counselors for their patients. A doctor who…

The practice of requiring or encouraging a patient to return for care to a health program with his whole family, even if the rest of the family does not need care, so that the program can charge the patient’s third-party for care given to each member of the family. The practice and term originated and…

The practice of one individual or organization selling its accounts receivable (unpaid bills) to a second at a discount. The latter organization, called the ‘factor,’ usually, but not always, assumes full risk of loss if the accounts prove uncollectible. In health services delivery, the expression generally refers to a hospital’s or physician’s sale of unpaid…

Buildings, including physical plant, equipment, and supplies, used in providing health services. They are one major type of health resource and include hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory care centers. Usually it is not intended to include the offices of individual practitioners. Something such as equipment, accommodation, treatment or help that is provided for people who…

To form fibrous tissue.