| Health Maintenance Organization |
A form of health care which provides services for a fixed period on a prepaid basis.
출처: www.crfonline.org/orc/glossary/h.html
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| Health Care Financing Administration |
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) agency renamed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that administers federal health financing and related regulatory programs, principally Medicare, Medicaid, and Peer Review Organization programs. The contracting agency for HMOs that provide Medicare managed care plans.
출처: www.insurance.wa.gov/consumers/glossary.asp
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| health care proxy |
This is a legal document in which an individual designates another person to make health care decisions if he or she is rendered incapable of making their wishes known. The health care proxy has, in essence, the same rights to request or refuse treatment that the individual would have if capable of making and communicating decisions.
출처: www.med.miami.edu/glossary/art.asp
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| health insurance |
Insurance against loss by sickness or bodily injury.
출처: www.insurance.wa.gov/consumers/glossary.asp
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| Health Maintenance Organization |
A legal entity in Washington state that provides health care in a geographic area, and which accepts responsibility to provide directly or by contract an agreed-upon set of health services to a defined, voluntarily-enrolled group of individuals. HMOs are reimbursed through a pre-determined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by or on behalf of each subscriber without regard to the amount of actual services provided. (In other states, HMOs are regarded as synonymous with "managed care. ...
출처: www.insurance.wa.gov/consumers/glossary.asp
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