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Preferred Provider Organization. A group of providers that have banded together in hopes of preserving and enlarging their market share by providing discounted services to groups with which they have contracts. These organizations can be of two types: (a) one is risk-bearing and provides its services in exchange for a pre-set monthly payment; (b) the other is non-risk-bearing and provides discounts off its usual charges.
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A mode of health care delivery through which a sponsoring group negotiates price discounts with providers in exchange for more patients. The sponsor may be an insurer, employer, or third-party administrator.
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A loose-knit organization of providers in which the insurer contacts with a limited number of physicians and hospitals to provide health care at specific levels of reimbursement for each service. The preferred providers are often subject to other stipulations regarding the monitoring of utilization, the appropriateness of care provided, and the terms of the provision of care allowed under the arrangements. ...
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A Preferred Provider Organization is a Managed Care Plan which arranges for the provision of Covered Services through a contracted network of participating providers. The entities that organize a PPO take several different forms. Some large insurers have formed exclusive networks that cover only patients of that insurer. Some PPOs have been formed by entities who then contract with many different insurers to allow those insurers' enrollees access to the network. ...
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A PPO is a type of health or dental plan that is similar to a fee-for-service plan. A PPO has arrangements with doctors, hospitals and other providers who have agreed to accept the plan
Ãâó: www.eip.sc.gov/glossary/p.htm
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