- Industry: Insurance
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Aetna, Inc. is an American diversified health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical ...
This is when a dentist removes large amounts of plaque and tartar. This makes it easier to examine your teeth. It is usually done when teeth haven’t been cleaned in a long time and there is a lot of buildup.
Industry:Health care
This means you are unable to perform your own occupation for any employer. It may occur because of illness or injury.
Industry:Health care
These are for doctors. They describe the best possible methods to diagnose and treat illness or injury. They are based on medical research. Some call them: clinical practice guidelines; practice parameters; medical protocols.
Industry:Health care
This is an important process. It is approval a person gets for care before he or she receives the care. This helps people know if the care is covered by a health plan. People should check with their plan to see what kind of service needs this approval. This can also be called: precertification (In Texas, this approval is known as “pre-service utilization review” and is not “verification” as defined by Texas law.); authorization; certification; prior authorization.
Industry:Health care
The amount you pay for covered services before your health plan begins to pay.
Industry:Health care
This test helps people find a new job when they can no longer perform their current job. This may happen because of illness or injury. The employer looks at skills the worker has. Skills from past jobs, education or other activities are reviewed. Then, these skills are matched with a position the worker is likely to be able to handle.
Industry:Health care
This is a health condition. It was diagnosed or treated before the date a health plan’s coverage began.
Industry:Health care
