(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.
Prepay
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(2) The three prepayment plans appealed to different population groups.
(3) Thus prepayment in an organized setting did change hospital and ambulatory care utilization but did not reduce medical care costs.
(4) A group practice prepayment plan in Baltimore had consumers on its governing board and, in alliance with a powerful medical institution, successfully organized around political, economic, and social issues.
(5) Ofgem data showed that in 2014 around 130,000 electricity and 103,000 gas customers switched to credit meters – just 3% of all prepayment customers.
(6) A spokesman for Ofgem says: "The supplier is obligated to supply information on how a customer can obtain assistance if a prepayment meter is not operating effectively, including details of timescales for removal and resetting of the meter if that action is necessary."
(7) We studied the impact on use of services of only one factor-prepayment at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin--with all other factors, including group practice, held constant.
(8) He added: “Tens of millions of pounds have been spent by the CMA and the companies themselves just to produce this low-key set of remedies.” Atherton is not convinced about the value of plans to cap prepayment meter bills and introduce an industry-wide customer database controlled by the industry regulator, Ofgem.
(9) Our research shows many prepay meter customers have to fork out hundreds of pounds more than those on online direct debit deals.
(10) The slow adoption of sealants into dental practice is attributed partly to the fact that few prepayment plans pay for sealants.
(11) The curative health services are decentralized and provide care through a variety of plans which combine capitation prepayment and modified fee-for service.
(12) He told MPs: "The initial phase of [a government] review has concluded and we will shortly start a consultation on a range of options, including plans to extend charging to some visitors and temporary residents who were previously exempt so that the default qualification for free NHS care would be permanent, not temporary, residence; ending free access to primary care for all visitors and tourists; introducing a prepayment or insurance requirement for temporary visitors to pay for NHS healthcare; and improving how the NHS can identify, charge and recover charges where they should apply.
(13) Employees joining or not joining three newly marketed prepayment plans were surveyed during the first marketing period and during another open enrollment period 18 months later.
(14) The CMA said it was considering remedies to fix the market, including removing barriers to switching, possible price controls and measures to prompt prepayment customers to switch by allowing other suppliers to contact them to offer better tariffs.
(15) In most respects, there were no adverse effects on the work relations of physicians, in the perceived quality of medical care, or in the institutional performance of physicians at the nine participating hospitals after the introduction of prepayment.
(16) Giving prepay meter customers a better deal is a crucial part of this.” Co-operative Energy said it was cutting its prepayment rates.
(17) Medicare will not be the only benefactor of this new scheme as prepayment spreads to other payors and providers of health care.
(18) In addition, although about one-half of persons with psychiatric disorders are believed to have their only contact with health care providers in the primary care sector, research findings suggest that depression often remains undetected and untreated in this secto; and there have been few data on how appropriateness of care for depression differs for patients in different health care delivery systems, or whose care is financed by prepayment or fee-for-service arrangements.
(19) Citizens Advice called for an extension of a recent price cap by the regulator Ofgem for 4m households on prepayment meters .
(20) A number of trends over the past decade predict that this transference to prepayment will continue in the future and will have a profound impact on the future practice of family medicine.