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Dental health services
All services designed or intended to promote, maintain or restore dental health including educational, preventive, and therapeutic services.
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Dental health
A state of complete normality and functional efficiency of the teeth and supporting structures, the surrounding parts of the oral cavity, and the various structures related to mastication and the maxillo-facial complex.
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Dental assistant
An individual who assists a dentist at the chairside in a dental operatory performs reception and clerical functions, and carries out dental radiography and selected dental laboratory work. The actual number of active dental assistants is not known since most dentists train and employ dental assistants who are neither certified nor registered as members of…
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Demand or demand schedule
In health economics, the varying amount of a good or service sought at varying prices, given constant income and other factors. Demand must be distinguished from utilization (the amount of services actually used), and need (for various reasons services are often sought which either the consumer or provider feel are unneeded). It is not always…
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Deficiency disease
Any specific disease or pathological state, with characteristic clinical signs, that is due to an insufficient intake of energy or essential nutrients; it is usually of dietary origin and can often be prevented or cured by bringing the intake up to an adequate level or otherwise changing the diet. A disease caused by lack of…
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Deferral of budget authority
In the Federal budget, any action or inaction of the executive branch, including the establishment of reserves under the Antideficiency Act, which temporarily withholds, delays, or effectively precludes the obligation or expenditure of budget authority. Under section 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. the President is required to report each…
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Debt service
The payment of matured interest on and principal of debts; the amount needed, supplied, or accrued for meeting such payments during any given accounting period; a budget or operating statement heading for such items.
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Data set
A minimum aggregation of uniformily defined and classified statistics that describe an element, episode or aspect of health care, e.g. Si hospital admission, ambulatory encounter, or a physician or hospital. Such data sets are used for evaluation, research and similar purposes. A specified set of items of information. The data set for a person’s address,…
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Customary charge
Generally, the amount which a physician normally or usually cha/-(j(s the majority of his patients. Under Medicare, it is the median charge used by a particular physician for a specified type of service during the calendar year preceding the fiscal year in which a claim is processed. There is therefore, an average delay of a…
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Custodial care
Board, room, and other personal assistance services generally’ provided on a long-term basis, which do not include a medical component. Such services are generally not paid for under private or public health insurance or medical care programs, except as incidental to medical care which a hospital or nursing home inpatient receives.
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