What's the difference between postpaid and prepaid?
Postpaid
Definition:
(a.) Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
Prepaid
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Prepay
Example Sentences:
(1) The studies are conducted on members of a prepaid medical insurance plan, and reside in the Oakland area of California, USA.
(2) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
(3) Because of concern about the effects of prepaid care on outcomes for elderly enrollees in health maintenance organizations (HMOs), a prospective study of access to care and functional outcomes was performed.
(4) This study reports costs incurred over a nine-and-one-half-month period following the introduction of obstetrical ultrasound into a group family practice serving primarily prepaid health plan patients.
(5) Quite a few offer insurance products, cash Isas and prepaid cards.
(6) In the short run, the use of community-based mental health treatment programs need not be affected by enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries in prepaid plans, providing that Medicaid program administrators take steps to minimize the disruption of ongoing treatment, offer beneficiaries a choice among prepaid plans, and encourage community treatment programs to contract with plans to serve beneficiaries.
(7) The patients were all members of a prepaid medical-care group; 84% were treated as outpatients.
(8) The author presents his views as to why prepaid care is the best method of after care for contact lens patients.
(9) This paper describes the planning efforts of a community agency that was ultimately unsuccessful in converting two primary care centers from the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement system to a per-capita prepaid Medicaid reimbursement system.
(10) Prepaid, case managed systems have been proposed as a method of controlling costs in Medicaid populations.
(11) This article compares mothers' satisfaction with children's medical care in six widely varying settings: fee-for-service solo and group practices, prepaid group practice, public clinics, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency rooms.
(12) A principal problem with previous studies that have estimated the effects of prepaid group practices (PGPs) on hospital costs and use is the treatment of PGP growth rates as an exogenous variable.
(13) Prepaid dental group practice, either independently or as part of a general health care system, has the potential of virtually eliminating edentulism in populations for which it has responsibility.
(14) Three methodologic issues (definitions of smoking, period of follow-up, composition of study group) were assessed in 426 persons five years after participation in a stop smoking program of a prepaid medical plan.
(15) The data were collected in 1981 as part of a U.S. household survey, 'A Study of Dental Health Related and Process Outcomes Associated with Prepaid Dental Care', the most comprehensive cross-sectional data base available in dentistry.
(16) The neighborhood also has been targeted as a demonstration site for an Illinois Department of Public Aid's prepaid Medicaid program.
(17) This study was designed to show what specific physician characteristics lead to patient satisfaction and to compare satisfaction of patients using either prepaid or fee-for-service modes of payment within the same settings.
(18) These economies were achieved while the prepaid group surgeons were observed to average more time per patient visit both on rounds and in the office than the community surgeons.
(19) Here, data are presented from a project which provided fully prepaid care to near poor families through existing sources in the community.
(20) These are tested using data on 3,892 individuals enrolled in the Kaiser Foundation Prepaid Health Plan of Portland, Oregon.