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Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms
Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms
Pages 89-96
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. HCFA Health Care Financing Administration (www.hcLa.gov)
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: Academic health centers, or AHCs, consist of health care institutions that are owned by or closely affiliated with a university or medical school. AHCs also have at least one additional health professional program, and are engaged in undergraduate and graduate medical education, biomedical research, and delivery of patient care.
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CHAMPUS is now called TRICARE Standard in most of the country. Clinical practice guidelines: Systematically developed statements that assist practitioners and patients with decision making about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.
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: An organized system of health care that arranges a comprehensive range of health care services to a voluntarily enrolled population in a geographic area on a primarily prepaid and fixed periodic basis. This health care service plan requires its subscriber members, except in a medical emergency, to use the services of designated physicians, hospitals, or other providers of medical care.
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MCO (managed care organization) : An organization that arranges for health care delivery and financing and that is designed to provide appropriate, effective, and efficient health care through organized relationships with providers.
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Primary care physician: A general practitioner, board-certified or boardeligible family practitioner, internist, obstetrician/gynecologist, or pediatrician who has contracted with a managed care organization (MCO) to provide primary care to subscriber members and who refers, authorizes, supervises, and coordinates the provision of all health care of subscriber members in accordance with the MCO contract.
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Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (date of last update: November 4, 1998~. Available at http://www.ahcpr.gov/.
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Health Care Financing Administration (date of last update: March 25, 1999~. Available at hKp://www.hefa.gov/.
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