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Dental POS

Health care; General

A dental service plan that allows a member to use either a DHMO network dentist or to seek care from a dentist not in the HMO network. Members choose in-network care or out-of-network care at the ...

Dental PPO

Health care; General

An organisation that provides dental care to its members through a network of dentists who offer discounted fees to the plan members. See also Preferred Provider Organization.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Health care; General

The federal agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs.Also see DOJ, Fraud and FBI.

Department of Justice (U.S. DOJ)

The federal agency that enforces the law and handles criminal investigations. As the nation's largest law firm, the DOJ protects citizens through effective law enforcement, crime prevention and crime ...

EDI translator

Health care; General

Used in electronic claims and medical record transmissions, this is a software tool for accepting an EDI transmission and converting the data into another format, or for converting a non-EDI data ...

Employment model IDS

Health care; General

An integrated delivery system that generally owns or is affiliated with a hospital and establishes or purchases physician practises and retains the physicians as employees.

Partial capitation

Health care; General

A contract between a payer and a sub-capitor, provider or other payer whereby payments made are a combination of capitated premiums and fee for service payments. The proportion of the ratios ...