Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A deep-massage technique, developed by Ida P. Rolf, Ph. D., which is designed to help a person realign the body by altering the length and tone of myofascial tissues. Practitioners of Rolfing, as the technique is commonly known, believe that misalignment resulting from inaccurate learning about posture, as well as emotional and physical trauma, may…

A company owned and controlled by stockholders and operated for the purpose of making a profit, and contrasted with a mutual Insurance company. Li the former the profits go to the owners, in the latter they go the insured.  

Section 1521 of the PHS Act, added requires the establishment of State health planning and development agencies in each State. As a replacement for existing State CHP agencies, SHPDAs will prepare an annual preliminary State health plan and the State medical facilities plan {Hill-Burton). The agency will also serve as the designated review agency for…

State agencies assigned various health services cost and charge regulation or review responsibilities. The duties of a commission may include assuring that: total hospital costs are reasonably related to total services offered; aggregate rates bear a reasonable relationship to aggregate costs; and rates are applied equitably to preclude any possibility of discriminatory pricing among various…

A health planning agency assisted under section 314(a) of the FHS Act, added the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Service Amendments of 1966. The agencies develop State comprehensive health planning programs, with the assistance of a health planning council broadly representative of public and private health organizations in the State with a majority of…

The privilege, granted by a hospital, or other inpatient health program, to a physician, or other independent practitioner, to join the hospital’s medical staff and hospitalize private patients in the hospital. A practitioner is usually granted privileges after meeting certain standards, being accepted by the medical staff and board of trustees of the hospital, and…

A malpractice insurance plan which involves an agreement by a professional society (such as a State medical society) to sponsor a particular insureds medical malpractice insurance coverage, and to cooperate with the insurer in the administration of the coverage. The cooperation may include participation in marketing, claims review, and review of ratemaking. Until 1975, this…

A method by which an individual establishes eligibility for a medical care program by reducing gross income through incurring medical expenses until net income (after medical expenses) becomes low enough to make him eligible for the program. The individual, in effect, spends income down to a specified eligibility standard by paying for medical care until…

In Medicare, the benefit period during which Part A hospital insurance benefits are available. A benefit period begins the first time an insured person enters a hospital after his hospital insurance begins. It ends after he has not been an inpatient in a hospital or skilled nursing facility for 60 days in a row. During…