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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. |
Case Management, Insurance,Insurance Case Management,Managed Health Care Insurance Plans,Managed Care,Care, Managed,Managed Care Program,Management, Insurance Case,Program, Managed Care,Programs, Managed Care |
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| D008824 |
Michigan |
State bounded on the north by the Great Lakes, on the east by Canada, on the south by Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, and on the west by Lake Michigan and Wisconsin. |
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| D010317 |
Partnership Practice |
A voluntary contract between two or more doctors who may or may not share responsibility for the care of patients, with proportional sharing of profits and losses. |
Partnership Practices,Practice, Partnership,Practices, Partnership |
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| D010816 |
Physician Incentive Plans |
Compensatory plans designed to motivate physicians in relation to patient referral, physician recruitment, and efficient use of the health facility. |
Incentive Plans, Physician,Incentive Plan, Physician,Physician Incentive Plan,Plan, Physician Incentive,Plans, Physician Incentive |
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| D011787 |
Quality of Health Care |
The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. |
Pharmacy Audit,Quality of Care,Quality of Healthcare,Audit, Pharmacy,Care Quality,Health Care Quality,Healthcare Quality,Pharmacy Audits |
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| D006759 |
Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures |
A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization. |
Joint Ventures, Hospital-Physician,Physician-Hospital Organizations,Hospital-Physician Joint Venture,Hospital-Physician Organizations,Joint Venture, Hospital-Physician,Joint Ventures,Organizations, Hospital-Physician,Organizations, Physician-Hospital,Hospital Physician Joint Venture,Hospital Physician Joint Ventures,Hospital Physician Organizations,Hospital-Physician Organization,Joint Venture,Joint Venture, Hospital Physician,Joint Ventures, Hospital Physician,Organization, Hospital-Physician,Organization, Physician-Hospital,Organizations, Hospital Physician,Organizations, Physician Hospital,Physician Hospital Organizations,Physician-Hospital Organization,Venture, Hospital-Physician Joint,Venture, Joint,Ventures, Hospital-Physician Joint,Ventures, Joint |
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