(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.
Restitution
Definition:
(v.) The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
(v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
(v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
(v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(2) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(3) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(4) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(5) Therapeutic action included application of antibiotics, surgical valve removal, and delayed restitution.
(6) The monoexponential pattern of restitution was seen with model-independent descriptors of relaxation as well as with tau.
(7) This study suggests that restitution of amniotic fluid volume in human pregnancies complicated by severe oligohydramnios does not acutely alter the umbilical artery PI.
(8) Tetrapolar impedance rheocardiography was used to study postextrasystolic potentiation and mechanic restitution.
(9) To determine whether centrally released vasopressin influences thirst, observations of osmotic thirst threshold, osmotic load excretion and postloading restitution of plasma osmolality were made in dogs in control experiments and during infusion of AVP antagonists into the third ventricle.
(10) It was found that chromosome fragments restitute with time, whereas the dicentrics are formed very quickly and their frequency remains the same, despite the decline in the number of chromosome breaks at later recovery times.
(11) A comparative evaluation of the effects of soaps and detergents on pH behaviour and lipids level on the skin surface and duration of their restitution was carried out.
(12) [The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986.
(13) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(14) The tissue restitution was better in suture anastomosis carried out with absorbable sutures than performed with non-absorbable suture material.
(15) It is concluded that grafting can be successfully employed in the treatment of central ulcers, as it not only restitutes tissue integrity, but also preserves useful vision.
(16) Following factors were obtained regardless whether investigations were carried out in normals or in psychiatric patients: A static factor, a dynamic factor, a stimulus-specific factor and a restitution-dependent factor.
(17) The apparent protective mechanisms of this prostanoid under the present conditions may involve mucus and fluid effusion that could allow restitution of the surface epithelial layer.
(18) The mechanical restitution of the left ventricle of closed-chest dogs was modeled as a monoexponential relation, using peak single-beat elastance as a measure of contractile strength.
(19) Transplants of 1-3 rat pancreases have proven to restitute streptozotocin induced diabetes in athymic nude mice.
(20) There was relevant hemodynamic irritation of perfusion in dopplersonographic examination cranial of compressed vessel, which normalized after restitution.