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Medicare part b

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The Medicare component that provides benefits to cover the costs of physicians' professional services, whether the services are provided in a hospital, a physician's office, an extended-care ...

Medicare prescription drug plan (PDP or MPDP)

Health care; General

A stand-alone drug plan, offered by insurers and other private companies to beneficiaries that receive their Medicare Part A and/or B benefits through the Original Medicare Plan; Medicare Private ...

Medicare provider analysis and review (MedPAR) file

Health care; General

A CMS data file that contains charge data and clinical characteristics, such as diagnoses and procedures, for every hospital inpatient bill submitted to Medicare for payment.

Medicare remittance advice remark codes

Health care; General

A national administrative code set for providing either claim-level or service-level Medicare-related messages that cannot be expressed with a Claim Adjustment Reason Code. This code set is used in ...

Medicare risk contract

Health care; General

An agreement by an HMO or competitive medical plan to accept a fixed dollar reimbursement per Medicare enrollee, derived from costs in the fee-for-service sector, for delivery of a full range of ...

Medicare Select

Health care; General

A Medicare supplement that uses a preferred provider organisation to supplement Medicare Part B coverage. A type of Medigap policy that may require enrollees to use certain hospitals and, in some ...

Medicare summary notice (MSN)

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A notice that the patients get after the doctors or providers file claims for Part A and Part B services in the Original Medicare Plan. It explains what the providers billed for, the ...

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