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Partial hospitalisation programme (PHP)

Health care; General

Acute level of psychiatric treatment normally provided for 4 or more hours per day. Normally includes group therapies and activities with homogeneous patient populations. Is used as a referral ...

Partial risk contract

Health care; General

A contract between a purchaser and a health plan, in which only part of the financial risk is transferred from the purchaser to the plan. Forms of this are often seen in 'self-funded' plans, ...

Participating physician

Health care; General

A primary care physician in practise in the payer's managed care service area who has entered into a contract.

Participating physician or participating provider

Health care; General

Simply refers to a provider under a contract with a health plan. A physician or hospital that has agreed to provide services for a set payment provided by a payer, or who agrees to other ...

Any provider licenced in the state of provision and contracted with an insurer. Usually this refers to providers who are a part of a network. That network would be a panel of participating providers. ...

Patient liability

Health care; General

The dollar amount that an insured is legally obligated to pay for services rendered by a provider. These may include co-payments, deductibles and payments for uncovered services.

Patient origin study

Health care; General

A study, generally undertaken by an individual health programme or health planning agency, to determine the geographic distribution of the residences of the patients served by one or more health ...