| AMCRA | American Managed Care and Review Association |
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| MBHO | managed behavioral healthcare organization |
| MCO | managed care organization; medical care organization; multicystic ovary |
| MCS | malignant carcinoid syndrome; managed care system; massage of the carotid sinus; mesocaval shunt; me... |
| MRMIB | Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board |
| MCO | Managed Care Organization |
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| MMC | Medicaid managed care |
| managed wetlands | Perched wetlands that receive seasonal flooding by man to induce marshland development. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| adjacent wetlands | <ecology> The term adjacent means bordering, continguous, or neighboring. Wetlands are separated from other waters by man-made dikes or barriers, natural river berms, beach dunes, and the like are adjacent wetlands. (15 Jan 1998) |
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| wetlands | <ecology> Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. (09 Oct 1997) |
| care, managed | Any system that manages healthcare delivery in order to control costs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| managed care | Any system that manages healthcare delivery to control costs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| managed care programs | Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| managed competition | A strategy for purchasing health care in a manner which will obtain maximum value for the price for the purchasers of the health care and the recipients. The concept was developed primarily by alain enthoven of stanford university and promulgated by the jackson hole group. The strategy depends on sponsors for groups of the population to be insured. The sponsor, in some cases a health alliance, acts as an intermediary between the group and competing provider groups (accountable health plans). The competition is price-based among annual premiums for a defined, standardised benefit package. (12 Dec 1998) |
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