Medical facility that provides health care services for specific illnesses or diseases (e.g., psychiatric hospital, rehabilitation hospital, long-term care hospital [LTCH]).

Type of Medicare Advantage Plan that provides more focused health care for some people. These plans give all the Medicare health care, as well as more focused care to manage a disease or condition such as congestive heart failure, diabetes, or end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

In a workers’ compensation case, injury occurring as the result of one incident or exposure that causes disability or need for medical treatment.

Medical insurance plan that pays when an individual’s claim reaches a certain threshold chosen by the employer. After the threshold is attained, the stop-loss insurance policy pays claims up to the lifetime limit per employee.

List of qualifying factors of a specific group of individuals, insurance coverage, and services that an insurance company assembles to administer and manage a group insurance program.

Type of insurance that pays benefits for only a single disease such as cancer or end-stage renal disease or for a group of diseases. It does not fill gaps in Medicare coverage.

Health insurance that provides benefits for certain medical supplies or treatments or for specific illnesses (e.g., dental, vision care, prescription drugs, long-term care, dread disease).

Medicaid program that pays for Medicare Part B premiums for individuals who have Medicare Part A, a low monthly income, and limited resources.

Small sample of tissue, intended to show the nature of the whole, for pathological diagnosis (e.g., a urine specimen).

Computerized voice recognition system that makes it possible for a computer system to respond to spoken words. Two basic categories are navigation or command control , which allows an individual to launch and operate software applications with spoken directions, and dictation software , which makes it possible for a computer system to recognize spoken words and automatically convert them into text.