Facility that provides treatment, training, and assists in restoring an individual who is disabled to maximum independence and productivity. It may offer occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, and vocational therapy.
Insurance Encyclopedia
Rehabilitation clause (Health Insurance)
A clause within a health insurance policy that provides help with vocational rehabilitation for the policyholder.
Rehabilitation facility
See: rehabilitation hospital or rehabilitation center .
Rehabilitation hospital
Institution or facility that gives health-related services to disabled individuals such as rehabilitative services and social or vocational services to help him or her obtain maximum function. For example, some conditions might be amputation, brain or spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, and stroke. Also called rehabilitation facility .
Rehabilitation of insurer
A process completed by a state’s insurance department with the intent of restoring a financially troubled insurer to solvency.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
Means that ‘spent’ convictions need not be disclosed to insurers as material facts. The rehabilitation period is five years for non-custodial sentences, seven years for custodial sentences exceeding 6 but not exceeding 30 months. Sentences over 30 months do not become ‘spent’. An agent or previous insurer who is aware of a spent conviction must not disclose it.
Rehearing
A second hearing by a court. Its purpose is to call the court’s attention to an error or omission which may have occurred in the court’s first consideration of the claim.
Rehearing (Legal Terminology)
A second hearing, called to highlight an error made during the first hearing.
Reimbursement
MEDICAL,USA: 1. Payment made because of accident or illness by an insurance company to a provider or facility that rendered medical services to patients covered by a managed care plan or insurance contract. 2. Repayment. 3. Term used when insurance payment is pending. Also known as payment .
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Re-payment of an amount already paid by the insured.
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The payment of the expenses actually incurred as a result of a accident or sickness, but not to exceed any amount specified in the policy.
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US: The payment of the expenses actually incurred as a result of an accident or sickness, but not to exceed any amount specified in the policy.
Reimbursement Benefits
The actual expenses incurred by the insured such as medical,, nursing, and hospital treatment, Reimbursement benefits are in contrast to indemnity benefits, which pay a stated amount for whatever disability or injury they cover without regard to the cost to the insured.