Choices the patient may have when there is more than one method to treat a health problem or an illness.
Tag: MEDICAL
Treatment plan
See: plan of treatment .
Treatment protocols
See: practice guidelines .
treatment, payment, or health care operations (TPO)
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, covered entities may disclose protected health information for TPO but must receive written consent from a patient for other situations.
Treaty
See: automatic reinsurance .
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A reinsurance contract under which the reassured agrees to offer and the reinsurer agrees to accept all risks of certain size within a defined class.
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REINSURACNE: A reinsurance contract under which the reinsured company agrees to cede and the reinsurer agrees to assume a portfolio of risks of a particular class or classes of business.
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Reinsurance under treaties relating to specified classes of policies.
Trend factor
Annual adjustment amount applied to total claim costs to represent the change in level of the costs from one period of time to another because of inflation and increase in use.
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The factor applied to rates which allows for such changes as increased cost of medical providers, the cost of new and expensive medical technology etc.
Trended
See: trending .
Trending
System of estimating costs of health care services by reviewing past trends in cost and use of the services. Also called trended .
Triage
1. Process of sorting a group of sick or injured patients according to their need for medical care. 2. Fee charged by health care facilities for emergency and other patients.
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A method of ranking sick or injured people according to the severity of their sickness or injury in order to ensure that medical and nursing staff facilities are used most efficiently.
Trial application
See: preliminary inquiry form .