System in which the insurance company maintains all clients’ basic insurance agreement records at the home office.

Physician’s clinical documentation indicating that a patient’s residential use of oxygen is medically necessary.

Medically able individuals who have their own dialysis equipment at home and, after proper training, perform their own dialysis treatment alone or with the assistance of a helper.

Exclusive insurance agent who works for a home service company and who collects premiums and gives service at the policy-owner’s residence. He or she offers monthly debit life, health, and fire insurance products and products for which premiums are billed by and remitted directly to the insurance company. Some of the business may also be in industrial insurance.

Method used for individual insurance that hires agents to collect premiums and give service at the policy owner’s residence. The agent works in a defined geographical territory. See also home service agent .

Understanding of a manufacturer and a distributor in which an insurance company selects not to offer a certain product or product line but acts as a brokerage general agent for specific product lines manufactured by another insurer.

1. Situation in which an individual is normally unable to leave home unassisted and to try to leave home takes considerable and taxing effort. Such a person may leave home for medical appointments; medical treatment; or short, infrequent absences for nonmedical reasons such as a trip to the barber or to attend a religious service. 2. In Medicare, one of the requirements to qualify for home health care.

In-home health with meal preparation, shopping, light housekeeping, money manage- ment, personal hygiene, grooming, and laundry.

One of the official compendia in the United States. Also see compendium, National Formulary , and United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) .

System of therapeutics based on the theory that was advanced in the late eighteenth century by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, who believed that a large amount of a particular drug may cause symptoms of a disease and moderate dosage may reduce or relieve those symptoms; thus some disease symptoms could be treated by small doses of medicine.