This is the degree of care and skill that the average doctor would provide to a patient who sought medical care for similar symptoms and circumstances.

Usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) charges for covered services are determined by using the usual level of charges made by the majority of dentists in the same geographic area for the same service. If your dentist's fee is lower than the UCR charge, the plan will pay benefits based on the actual fee. If the fee is higher, the plan will pay benefits based only on the UCR charge, and you are responsible for any amount above the UCR limit. See similar questions...

Answer: The law requires that a health care provider exercise the degree of skill, care, and learning expected of a reasonably prudent healthcare provider in similar circumstances. If a provider fails to perform in this manner it is considered a breach or violation of the standard of care. See similar questions...

Because you can go anywhere you'd like for services, chances are the insurance company won't have a contract with the doctor or provider of services you decide to go to. Therefore, the insurance company has no control over the amount of money your doctor or provider is billing for their services. The insurance company has to control costs somehow. What they (the insurance companies) do is establish usual, customary and reasonable charges for any kind of services you might receive. See similar questions...

Usual, customary and reasonable charge refer to fees charged by an individual/institution that are consistent with the going rate in a given region or geographical area. See similar questions...

Usual and customary, also called reasonable and customary, means the fee charged by most of the providers in a given geographical area for a particular service. Insurance companies may subscribe to an independent service which periodically surveys providers in a given area, or they may use their own claims experience to establish usual and customary allowances. Most companies pay claims based upon a percentile of the usual and customary fee schedule. See similar questions...

Insurers collect data from their own experience or from other sources reflecting the fees charged by health care providers in a particular geographic area for a specific service or procedure. Generally, the data is collected by zip code area or other regional basis. The data must be updated every six months and can be no more than 18 months old. See similar questions...

When a patient seeks care for a problem there is a standard or specific treatment for that problem. Therefore, as a patient, if you seek care you have the right to expect that the health care provider will know and provide you with that care. Standard of care is the usual care needed for a specific problem. See similar questions...

Your primary care provider is responsible for managing your health care needs. Many HMOs require its members to receive all care from the primary care provider or with a referral from the primary care provider. See similar questions...

Insurance Companies have a set allowable rate for procedures according to the provider’s zip code area. Any amount over that rate could be denied by your insurance as patient responsibility. Therefore, you would be responsible for that portion. Most insurances require authorization for inpatient care only, however some plans require pre-authorization for some procedures that we perform. See similar questions...

Standard deviation is a standardized unit used to report how close your score is to the average score. This unit of measure takes into account how spread out the data is. A low standard deviation means that the scores are tightly clustered; a high standard deviation means that they are widely scattered. It's impossible to tell. Diagnostic performance results are based on both multiple-choice and simulation responses and it is not possible to separate the two. See similar questions...

The type of care that the hospice provides is called palliative care. This type of care is designed to control any symptoms that may be experienced and to ensure that patients live as full and pain free lives as possibile. See similar questions...

Most people move into Inverness Village and take full advantage of all the freedom and peace of mind our unique retirement lifestyle has to offer. One of our key advantages, however, is our status as a Life Care community offering a continuum of care. This means lifetime access to assisted living, memory support and skilled nursing care, if ever needed. See similar questions...

Continuing care communities are distinguished from other senior living environments because they offer a full continuum of services. The licensed programs of continuing care communities such as Glacier Hills are designed to meet the changing health and living needs of older adults. These programs offer increasing levels of assistance tailored to individual needs. All of this is offered in the familiar environment of Glacier Hills. See similar questions...

Choose Help facilities offer excellent and comprehensive medical care; and treatment will involve physicians, medical nurses, registered psychologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and other addictions professionals. Patients will receive a physical evaluation during the initial assessment period, and will remain under constant medical observation should they need to progress firstly through a period of supervised detoxification. See similar questions...

In PPMacros, the names of the macros follow a certain standard. If you enhance the software, you are allow (and encouraged) to use the same naming convention. Examples: if you define a 32 bits floating point variable type, you can name it fp32 and introduce macros like load_fp32_lp32. If you want to introduce the square root macro, it can be named: sqrt_f_f, sqrt_f16_f16 and sqrt_f32_f32. See similar questions...

VESA stands for the Video Electronic Standards Association. This association has set many standards in the industry, which most manufactures have adopted. One of those standards is a mounting hole pattern that may be found on the back of an LCD panel. If your are not sure your monitor is VESA standard, please check your monitor manual under "specifications," or consult our VESA Reference Chart, or call us at 1-800-888-6024. See similar questions...

If students are over 18 years of age, it means that we cannot tell you about their health care unless we have written permission from them. At times, this distresses parents and families, but that is the law, and we must abide by it. If your student tells you about an illness, please encourage your student to sign a release if you want more information. We will be happy to discuss the situation with you when we have written permission to do so. See similar questions...