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Glossaries

For many of us, medical and health insurance terms are unfamiliar or complex. Our glossaries define some of those terms.


		Assignment of benefits A procedure whereby the subscriber authorizes the carrier to make payment of allowable benefits directly to the provider and accepts those allowable benefits as payment in full.

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Abuse
Adjustment
Allowed charge
American Hospital Association
Anniversary
Appeal procedure
Assignment
Assignment of benefits
Average wholesale pricing

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