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A person's ability to keep his or her health coverage during times of change in health status or personal situation (such as change in employment or unemployment, marriage or divorce) or while moving between health plans.
Industry:Health care
Healthcare services received by a woman immediately following the delivery of her child
Industry:Health care
The process where, before a patient can be admitted to the hospital or receive other types of specialty services, the managed care company must approve of the proposed service in order to cover it.
Industry:Health care
A medical condition or diagnosis that began before coverage began under a current plan or insurance contract. The insurance company may provide coverage but will specifically exclude treatment for such a condition from that person's coverage for a certain period of time, often six months to a year.
Industry:Health care
The amount paid periodically to buy health insurance coverage. Employers and employees usually share the cost of premiums.
Industry:Health care
The maximum amount of money an insurance company can charge for coverage.
Industry:Health care
A type of HMO where participating providers receive a fixed payment in advance for providing particular healthcare services.
Industry:Health care
Healthcare services that prevent disease or its consequences. It includes primary prevention to keep people from getting sick (such as immunizations), secondary prevention to detect early disease (such as Pap smears) and tertiary prevention to keep ill people or those at high risk of disease from getting sicker (such as helping someone with lung disease to quit smoking).
Industry:Health care
Basic or general routine office medical care, usually from an internist, obstetrician-gynecologist, family practitioner, or pediatrician.
Industry:Health care
