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CMA Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Patient-Centered Medical Home | A model of primary care that emphasizes care based on a personal relationship between a patient, physician, and the patients health care team |
Utilization Review | Assessing medical services to determine whether they are appropriate necessary and of high quality |
Capitation | A set of payment provided by managed care insurance per patient per month regardless of the amount of service the patient receives |
3 Character Traits | Dependability, Honesty, and Tolerance |
Ambulatory Care | Medical care that is provided on an outpatient basis |
Empirical | Learned from observation or experiment |
Palliative Treatment | Therapy that reduces the effects of disease or condition but does not remove the disease itself |
Health Insurance | A system that manages the delivery of health care with the intention of controlling costs |
Curative | Treatment that cures diseases |
Fee-For-Service | A means of payment for health care in which each service provided is reimbursed in full or in part |
Formulary | A list of prescription drugs covered or preferred by a managed care insurance comapany |
Managed Care | Purchase of protection for covered services related to health care |
Residency | A program to provide training in a medical field specialty to a physician who has finished medical school |
Holistic | Considering the whole in medicine, considering the entire person when providing health care |
Symptomatic Treatment | Therapy for symptoms of a disease or condition |