General

General

General nature or nature terms.

Contributors in General

General

A plan offered by a private company that contracts with Medicare to provide the enrollee with Medicare Part A and/or Part B benefits. Medicare Health Plans include Medicare Advantage plans (including ...

Medicare managed care plan

Health care; General

A type of Medicare Advantage Plan that is available in some areas of the country. In most managed care plans, enrollees can only go to doctors, specialists, or hospitals on the plan's list. Plans ...

Medicare Part A

Health care; General

The Medicare component that provides basic hospital insurance to cover the costs of inpatient hospital services, confinement in nursing facilities or other extended care facilities after ...

Medicare Part B

Health care; General

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 ...