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Generally, the physician staff in training at a hospital, principally comprised of the hospital’s interns, residents and fellows. Members of the housestaff are called houseofficers. Occasionally also applies to physicians salaried by a hospital who are not receiving any graduate medical education.  

A visit by a physician or other provider to a patient’s home. Now considered by some to be an obsolete practice with respect to physicians.  

The compulsory portion of Medicare which automatically enrolls all persons aged 65 and over, entitled to benefits under OASDHI or railroad retirement, persons under 65 who have been eligible for disability for over two years, and insured workers (and their dependents) requiring renal dialysis or kidney transplantation. The program pays, after various cost-sharing requirements are…

A physician who spends the predominant part of his practice time within one or more hospitals instead of in an office setting, or providing services to one or more hospitals or their patients. Such physicians sometimes have a special financial arrangement with the hospital (salary or percentage of fees collected), and include directors of medical…

In the Veterans Administration health care program, outpatient medical or dental treatment paid for by the program and provided eligible veterans in their own communities by VA approved doctors or dentists of their own choice. Such treatment is furnished when the care cannot be given by VA clinic facilities, or when the health of the…

One of the three official compendia in the United States recognized in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.  

Non-medical support services (e.g., food preparation, bathing) given a homebound individual who is unable to perform these tasks himself. Such services are not covered under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, or most other health insurance programs, but may be included in the social service programs developed by the States under title XX of the Social…

An agency which provides home health care. To be certified under Medicare an agency must provide skilled nursing services and at least one additional therapeutic service (physical, speech or occupational therapy, medical social services, or home health aide services) in the home. Essentially the same as a home health care program in that it provides…

A provision of law that prevents a governmental entity, institution or other party from suffering additional expenses or loss of benefits as a result of a change in a statute or regulations. Without such a provision such an entity or institution would be responsible for expenses not previously anticipated due to an expanded caseload, more…

Legislation, and the programs operated under that legislation, for Federal support of construction and modernization of hospitals and other health facilities, beginning with the Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946. The original law, which has been amended frequently, provided for surveying State needs, developing plans for construction of hospitals and public health centers, and…