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An account that lets workers set aside pretax dollars to pay for medical benefits, childcare, and other services.
Industry:Health care
A list of medications that a managed care company encourages or requires physicians to prescribe as necessary in order to reduce costs.
Industry:Health care
A contractual agreement between a managed care organization and a provider that restricts what the provider can say about the managed care company
Industry:Health care
The person in a managed care organization, often a primary care provider, who controls a patient's access to healthcare services and whose approval is required for referrals to other services or other specialists.
Industry:Health care
Physicians without specialty training who provide a wide range of primary healthcare services to patients.
Industry:Health care
A way of containing hospital costs in which participating hospitals share a budget, agreeing together to set the maximum amount of money that will be paid for healthcare.
Industry:Health care
Health insurance offered through business, union trusts or other groups and associations. The most common system of health insurance in the United States, in which the cost of insurance is based on the age, sex, health status and occupation of the people in the group.
Industry:Health care
The requirement that an insurance plan accept everyone who applies for coverage and guarantee the renewal of that coverage as long as the covered person pays the policy premium.
Industry:Health care
Financial protection against the healthcare costs caused by treating disease or accidental injury.
Industry:Health care
The specific services and procedures covered by a health plan or insurer.
Industry:Health care
