Providing to an individual hospital accommodations, comfort, diagnosis, and treatment of a condition and implying responsibility for services, equipment, supplies, and rehabilitation.
Tag: MEDICAL
Care management
See: case management.
Care mapping
See: disease management.
Care plan
See: plan of treatment.
Care plan oversight (CPO) services
Continuous review and revision of a patient’s complex care and treatment by the primary care physician. Usually these involve cases of children and adults under either the home health agency (HHA) or hospice benefit that have special health care needs and chronic medical conditions (e.g., Down syndrome patient).
Care unit
Department in a health care facility for treatment of a certain type of patient (e.g., obstetrical care unit).
Care/Caid
See: Medicare/Medicaid (Medi-Medi). Also See: crossover patient.
Care/Caid case
See: Medicare/Medicaid (Medi-Medi). Also See: crossover patient.
Career agent
Full-time insurance company representative licensed by the state who sells insurance policies and services to the policyholder for the insurer and sends all or almost all of his or her business to that company. He or she may also act as a broker with other companies.
Career average benefit formula
Defined benefit formula in which the retirement benefit amount is based on the participant’s compensation during the entire period of participation in the plan. Also called career earnings benefit formula. See also defined benefit formula .