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Kiting
Increasing the quantity of a drug ordered by a prescription. Either the patient or pharmacist may kite the quantity of the original prescription, for example, by adding zeros to the number shown on a prescription. When done by a pharmacist, he then provides the patient with the quantity originally prescribed but bills a third party,…
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Kerr-mills
Popular name for the Social Security Amendments of 1960 which expanded and modified the Federal government’s existing responsibility for assisting the States in paying for medical care for the aged poor. The Act liberalized Federal sharing in vendor payments for medical care under the Federal/State old-age cash assistance program. It also created a new public…
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Keogh act plan
A plan, available since 1963, under the Self-Employed Individual’s Tax Retirement Act (Keogh Act), which permits a self-employed individual (such as a private physician) to establish a formal retirement plan including himself and to obtain tax advantages similar to those available for qualified corporate pension plans. Self-employed individuals can annually set aside up to fifteen…
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Joint underwriting association
An association consisting of all insurers authorized by a State to write a certain kind of insurance, usually some form of liability insurance such as malpractice insurance. Such associations may be required or voluntarily agree to write malpractice insurance on a self-supporting basis. ‘I hey may write such insurance on an exclusive basis, which means…
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Joint purchasing agreement
A formal agreement among two or more health facilities or programs to purchase professional services, equipment or supplies. The agreements simplify purchasing or result in economies of scale intended to lower costs to the programs. The purchased services or supplies may be shared or simply distributed among the programs.
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International classification of disease, adapted for use in the united states
A USFHS official adaptation of a system for classifying diseases and operations for the purpose of indexing hospital records developed by the World Health Organization. Diseases are grouped according to the problems they present. For example, the major infective and parasitic diseases are listed in one section and all malignant neoplasms in another section. A…
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Intermediary letter
A letter from the Bureau of Health Insurance to the intermediaries in the Medicare program which provides them with administrative direction or policy. These letters form a numbered series in which the Social Security Administration has made much of the policy for the Medicare program over the last decade.
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Intermediary
A public or private agency or organization selected by providers of health care which enters into an agreement with the Secretary of HEW under the Hospital Insurance Program (Part A) of Medicare, to pay claims and perform other functions for the Secretary with respect to such providers. Usually, but not necessarily, a Blue Cross plan…
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Intensity of service
The quantities of services provided to patients in a hospital or some other identifiable setting. Intensity can be expressed in terms of a weighted index of services provided, or in terms of a set of statistics indicating the average number of laboratory tests, surgical procedures, X-rays, etc., provided per patient or per patient day. Intensity…
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Insurer
The party to an insurance policy who contracts to pay losses or render services.
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