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The FDA approved label is the official description of a drug product which includes indication (what the drug is used for); who should take it; adverse events (side effects); instructions for uses in pregnancy, children, and other populations; and safety information for the patient. Labels are often found inside drug product packaging.
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In general, a group health plan that covers employees of an employer that has 101 or more employees. Until 2016, in some states large groups are defined as 51 or more.
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Brand name of mefloquine, a drug used against malaria for both prevention and treatment.
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An immature stage of a developing mosquito. Mosquito larvae are wingless and develop in water.
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The agency within a Part B consortium that is responsible for contract administration; also called a fiscal agent (an incorporated consortium sometimes serves as the lead agency)
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White blood cell.
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Increase in total white blood cell count.
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Decrease in total white blood cell count.
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A table for a given population listing, for each sex and each age from 0 to 120, how many members die at that age and how many survive one more year.
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A dollar limit on how much the insurance company will pay in your lifetime. An insurer may, for example, cover up to $1 million over your lifetime. Above this they will pay nothing.
A cap on the total lifetime benefits you may get from your insurance company. An insurance company may impose a total lifetime dollar limit on benefits (like a $1 million lifetime cap) or limits on specific benefits (like a $200,000 lifetime cap on organ transplants or one gastric bypass per lifetime) or a combination of the two. After a lifetime limit is reached, the insurance plan will no longer pay for covered services.
Many health insurance plans have historically placed dollar limits upon the claims that the insurer will pay over the course of an individual's life. The ACA prohibits lifetime limits on benefits beginning for plan years that start on or after September 23, 2010.
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The probability of developing cancer in the course of one's lifespan. Lifetime risk may also be discussed in terms of the probability of developing or of dying from cancer.
Based on cancer rates from 2001 to 2003, it was estimated that men had about a 45 percent chance of developing cancer in their lifetimes, while women had about a 38 percent chance.
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“Limited benefit health insurance policies” can cost far less than traditional insurance, but cap what health insurance carriers will pay toward medical care. For example, the policy may pay $2,500 per person, per year, an amount that would be exhausted by a single trip to the emergency room. Some limited benefit health insurance policies have daily caps, such as paying a few hundred dollars a day toward hospital coverage. This differs from traditional health insurance, which generally covers most medical expenses in a given year, after deductibles and co-payments have been made.
Before purchasing a “limited benefit health insurance policy”, find out if you will be covered for hospital visits or routine doctor’s care and make sure you understand the all of the limits in the benefits provided.
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A type of health plan that provides coverage for only certain specified health care services or treatments or provides coverage for health care services or treatments for a certain amount during a specified period.
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A healthcare facility authorized by the Department of Social and Health Services to specialize in twenty-four hour inpatient medical and rehabilitative care for patients who have medically complex needs. These patients typically are bed-bound, ventilator dependent and require daily assessment by a physician. These facilities are not identical with chronic care, skilled nursing, acute rehabilitation or short-term acute care hospital facilities.
A healthcare facility authorized by the Department of Social and Health Services to specialize in twenty-four hour inpatient medical and rehabilitative care for patients who have medically complex needs. These patients typically are bed-bound, ventilator-dependent and require daily assessment by a physician. These facilities are not identical with chronic care, skilled nursing, acute rehabilitation or short-term acute-care hospital facilities.
- Browse Related Terms: Acute Care, Care Provider, Community Acquired Infection, Consumer / healthcare consumer, Critical Access Hospital (CAH), diarrhea, Health Literacy, Healthcare Associated Infection, Healthcare provider, Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI), Home care, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Long Term Acute Care Facility or Hospital (LTAC), Long-term care facility (LTCF), Medical Procedure, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Spectrum of Healthcare
Services that help meet the medical and nonmedical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability.
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Services that include medical and non-medical care provided to people who are unable to perform basic activities of daily living such as dressing or bathing. Long-term supports and services can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. Individuals may need long-term supports and services at any age. Medicare and most health insurance plans don’t pay for long-term care.
Long Term Care is the assistance or supervision you may need when you are not able to do some of the basic "activities of daily living" (ADL) like bathing, dressing or moving from a bed to a chair. Examples of conditions in which you might need assistance with ADLs are: injury, illness, advanced age, or mental deterioration.
- Browse Related Terms: Acute Care Facility, Assisted Living, Board and Care Facility (Long Term), Hospice Care, Inpatient Care, Long-term Care, Skilled Nursing Care, Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Skilled Nursing Facility Care
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An institution, such as nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities that provide healthcare to people who are unable to manage independently in the community. This care may represent custodial or chronic care management or short-term rehabilitative services.
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Leukocyte with a large round nucleus and usually a small cytoplasm. Specialized types of lymphocytes have enlarged cytoplasms and produce antibodies. Other specialized lymphocytes are important in cellular immune responses.
- Browse Related Terms: anorexia, antibody, antigen, Coma, efficacy, Immunity, lymphocyte, Serology, Splenectomy, splenomegaly
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