See: fee schedule.
Tag: USA
Capped rental item
Durable medical equipment that costs more than $150 (e.g., nebulizers, manual wheelchairs) and is rented by the supplier to Medicare beneficiaries more than 25% of the time.
Captive
Insurer that is created and owned by one or more noninsurers to provide their owners with insurance coverage.
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An insurance or reinsurance subsidiary of an industrial company, trade association, or not-for-profit organization. Captives insure or reinsure parent-related business, non-parent business, or both. Though the number of domestic captives is increasing, most captives are still located in tax-advantaged offshore domiciles, such as Barbados, Bermuda, or the U.K.’s Channel Islands.
Captured care
Percentage of a provider’s care to be given under an exclusive managed care and/or capitation contract.
Care
Providing to an individual hospital accommodations, comfort, diagnosis, and treatment of a condition and implying responsibility for services, equipment, supplies, and rehabilitation.
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).