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Patient
One who is receiving health services; sometimes used synonymously with consumer. Being able to wait a long time without becoming annoyed. A person who has established a contractual relationship with a health care provider for that provider to care for that person. A patient may or may not be ill or injured. A patient who…
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Partnership for health
A synonym for the comprehensive health planning program The first set of amendments to the program were made in 1967 which was given the short title, Partnership for Health Amendments of 1967, and hence the name.
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Participation
A physician participates in an insurance plan when he agrees to accept the plan’s preestablished fee or reasonable charge as the maximum amount which can be collected for services rendered. A non-participating physician may charge more than the insurance program’s maximum allowable amount for a particular service. The patient is then liable for the excess…
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Para-medical personnel
Those health manpower who are not doctors. It includes medical technicians, health aides, record keepers, family health workers, nutritionists, dental hygienists, physician assistants, and health associates, but there seems to be no agreed upon list of included occupations.
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Package insert
The labeling approved by the Food and Drug Administration for a prescription drug product, which accompanies the product when shipped by the manufacturer to the pharmacist, but usually does not accompany the dispensed prescription. The package insert is directed at the prescribing professional, principally the physician, and states the appropriate uses of a drug, the…
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Ownership disclosure
Disclosure by a health program of all ownership interests in the program. By law, each skilled nursing facility participating in Medicare and Medicaid must supply ownership information to the State survey agency and each intermediate care facility must supply such information to the State licensing agency. Full and complete information must be supplied on the…
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Output measures
Variously used synonymously with measure of the productivity of health programs and manpower, programs and manpower, process measures or outcome measures.
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Outpatient medical facility
A facility designed to provide a limited or full spectrum of health and medical services (including health education and maintenance, preventive services, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation) to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization (outpatients).
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Out-of-pocket payments or costs
Those borne directly by a patient without benefit of insurance, sometimes called direct costs. Unless insured, these include patient payments under cost-sharing provisions.
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Outlays
In the Federal budget, actual expenditures of Federal funds, including checks issued, interest accrued on the public debt, or other payments (minus refunds and reimbursements). Total budget outlays consist of the sum of the outlays from appropriations and other funds included in the budget universe, less offsetting receipts. Off-budget Federal agencies are not included in…
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