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Publicly funded healthcare is a form of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most healthcare needs from a publicly managed fund. Usually this is under some form of democratic accountability, the right of access to which are set down in rules applying to the whole population contributing to the fund or receiving benefits ...
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 ...
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare, [1] in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence "single-payer"). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from private organizations (as is the case in Canada ) or may own and employ healthcare ...
A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
The Brazilian health system is composed of a large, public, government managed system, the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), which serves the majority of the population completely free of charge or any form of fee, and a private sector, managed by health insurance funds and private entrepreneurs.
The Medical Services Plan of British Columbia (MSP) is a government-administered, single-payer health insurance in the Canadian province of British Columbia, operating under the auspices of the country's national Medicare program.
As of April 2014, Vermont had yet to craft a bill that would address the $2 billion in extra spending necessary to fund the single-payer system, [13] [14] and by the end of the year, Governor Shumlin announced the government would abandon its plan for single-payer Green Mountain Care, citing "potential economic disruption." [1]
The American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Professional Data (formerly known as the AMA Physician Masterfile) includes current and historical data on all physicians, including AMA members and nonmembers, and graduates of foreign medical schools who reside in the United States and who have met the educational and credentialing requirements necessary for recognition as physicians. [1]