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In U.S. health insurance, a preferred provider organization (PPO), sometimes referred to as a participating provider organization or preferred provider option, is a managed care organization of medical doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who have agreed with an insurer or a third-party administrator to provide health care at ...
Trigenics is a neurological-based manual or instrument-assisted assessment and treatment system [42] developed and patented by Allan Oolo Austin. [43] The technique is relatively infrequently used by chiropractors compared to other chiropractic techniques such as Diversified, trigger point therapy and Activator.
Aetna Inc. (/ ˈ ɛ t n ə / ET-nə) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare.
In-Network Provider: (U.S. term) A health care provider on a list of providers preselected by the insurer. The insurer will offer discounted coinsurance or co-payments, or additional benefits, to a plan member to see an in-network provider. Generally, providers in network are providers who have a contract with the insurer to accept rates ...
Roth M. 1979. "Is an Independent Practice Association for You?" Physician's Management. 19, no. 1: 42–6. 2002. "LATE - REGULATORY PRECEDENT - The FTC OKs a Deal That Would Allow a Physician Independent Practice Association to Contract with Health Plans on Behalf of Its Competing Physicians". Modern Healthcare. 32, no. 8: 6.
[18] [69] Chiropractic is autonomous from and competitive with mainstream medicine, [70] and osteopathy outside the US remains primarily a manual medical system; [71] physical therapists work alongside and cooperate with mainstream medicine, and osteopathic medicine in the U.S. has merged with the medical profession. [70]
Among the physician practices, 16.5% had only one office-based physician in 2016. [3] Physician group practices with 2-4 physicians make up 22.3% of physician offices in the United States, 19.8% have 5-10 physicians, 12.1% have 11-24 physicians, 6.3% have 25–49, and the remaining 13.5% have 50 or more physicians.
The Physician Masterfile spans from undergraduate medical education through practice and comprise databases of 125 LCME-accredited medical schools; 7,900 ACGME-accredited graduate medical education programs; 1,600 teaching institutions; 820,000 physicians; and 19,000 medical group practices.