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A component of Medicare that gives beneficiaries the option of receiving health care from privately managed health plans.  

Infectious or physically dangerous medical or biological waste. Included are discarded blood and blood products; waste from the pathology department, including body parts, tissues, or fluids discarded during surgery or at autopsy; contaminated animal carcasses; animal body parts and bedding; sharps; discarded preparations made from genetically altered living organisms and their products.  

An estimate of the health of a patient awaiting organ transplantation. Patients judged to have graver medical conditions are considered to have a more pressing need for donor organs than less gravely ill patients.  

A person who makes a typed record from the data and information available from the physician’s dictated material concerning the patient’s medical records. An individual who has met the requirements of the American Association of Medical Transcription is certified by that body as a Certified Medical Transcriptionist.  

Travelling abroad to undergo expensive invasive procedures in countries where high-quality, low-cost care is available, e.g., India. The funds saved on the care received are used to sponsor recuperation and vacation in the host country. Medical tourism is a form of outsourcing of health care and is typically used for highly technical, costly surgical procedures…

Studies designed to provide valid comparisons between medical care processes and outcomes as they are affected by system of care and clinician’s specialty, as well as by patients’ diagnoses and the levels of severity of illness. Thus, MOS provides a model for monitoring the results of medical care.