1. One or more medical services received by the patient during a specified time frame for a specific disease by a facility or provider. 2. Term coined by Lovelace Health Systems in 1993 when it began the Lovelace Episodes of Care Program. It means all services provided to a patient with a specific medical problem within a specified period of time. This system was introduced to improve treatment of complex, high-cost, and chronic diseases to enhance cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. Also called an episode of hospital care . See also continuum of care .

Classification system that groups care given to a patient over time based on services, procedures, and diagnoses that are related to an episode of treatment so that a single payment may be made for the entire episode of care. Also known as episodic treatment group (ETG) .

Abbreviation for encounters per member per year.

Name of a disease, anatomical structure, operation, or procedure, usually derived from the name of a place or person who discovered or described it first or a patient first diagnosed with the condition or treated by the procedure.
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Comparable Medical TermBuerger’s diseaseThromboangiitis obliteransGraves’ diseaseExophthalmic goiterWilkes’ syndromeMyasthenia gravis

Type of written notice or act that does not fully meet the requirements of a legal assignment but is valid and enforced by the courts in the interest of fairness and justice.
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UK: Assignment that does not give the assignee the right to sue in his own name. No particular form is necessary, not even writing, e.g. insured hands his life policy over to the bank as security for a loan. The assignee should notify the insurer as there may be successive assignees. Insurers in doubt as to the entitlement to the policy proceeds can pay the money into court under the Life Assurance Companies (Payment into Court) Act 1896.