Medicine, Business and Practice Of

• ABO system
• AMA
• ambulatory care
• American Medical Association
• average length of stay
• BAC
• bed occupancy
• bedside manner
• dioethics
• blood alcohol concentration
• bloodmobile
• Blue Cross
• Blue Shield
• capitation fee
• case history
• catastrophic coverage
• census
• charity patient
• closed panel practice
• code call
• cognitive service
• coinsurance
• comprehensive medical insurance
• copayment
• cost effectiveness
• death certificate
• diagnosis-related group
• DNR
• DRG
• dumping
• fixed fee
• follow-up
• for-profit
• gatekeeper
• gray market
• group insurance
• group practice
• HCFA
• health administrator
• Health Care Financing Administration
• health insurance
• health maintenance organization
• high-touch product
• Hippocratic oath
• HMO
• hospital administrator
• hospitalization
• house call
• independent practice association
• IPA
• living will
• major medical
• malpractice
• malpractice insurance managed care
• Medicaid
• Medicaid mill
• medical insurance
• medically indigent
• Medicare
• national health
• National Institutes of Health
• NIH
• not-for-profit
• notifiable disease
• ombudsman
• on-call
• patient advocacy
• PCN
• peer review organization
• physician liability
• PPO
• practice
• preexisting condition
• preferred-provider organization
• primary care
• primary care network
• private insurance
• private practice
• PRO
• procedure
• procedure capture
• product line extension
• prospective payment
• Public Health Service
• RDA
• recommended dietary allowance
• referral
• reimbursement
• reportable disease
• retail customer
• retrospective billing
• rounds
• secondary care
• shift
• socialized medicine
• tertiary care
• uncompensated care
• USRDA
• U.S. recommended daily allowance
• Utilization review committee
• WHO
• World Health Organization