MEDICAL,USA: 1. Process used by hospital facilities and physicians in which they combine business operations to reduce expenses and increase health care services. There are different types of integration such as simple coordination (combine purchasing) to full integration (centralized administration and coordination of care). 2. Combination of two or more insurance benefit plans to prevent duplication of benefit payments. Also referred to as integrated carve-out plan .
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A coordination of disability benefits with benefits payable under Social Security, through a specific formulae.
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UK: Reduction of a person’s pension by part or all of the pension they will receive from the basic state pension. See STATE OFFSET PENSION.