Health Insurance Terms Glossary
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Health Insurance Terms Glossary in alphabetical order. Click on
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A
Actual Charge
Approved Charge
B
Benefit
Maximum
Benefit Period
C
Certificate
Holder
Chronic Condition
Claim
COBRA
Conditionally Renewable
Coordination of
Benefits (COB)
Copayment (co-insurance)
Covered services
D
Deductible
E
Enrollment period
Exclusion
Experimental
Explanation of Benefits
(EOB)
F
Federally
Eligible Individual (FEI)
Fee for service
Free look
G
Group
insurance
Guaranteed renewable
H
Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Hospital indemnity
policy
I
Individual
health insurance
Inpatient
Insured
J, K
L
Lifetime
maximum
Long-term care (LTC)
Loss
Loss ratio
M
Medically
necessary
Medical Savings
Account (MSA)
Multiple
Employer Welfare Arrangement (MEWA)
N
O
Open enrollment
Out-of-state group
policies
Out-patient
P
Pre-existing
condition (pre-ex)
Pre-certification
Primary payer
Provider
R, S
Secondary
payer
Self-insured plan
Specific disease policy
T, U
Usual,
Customary and Reasonable (UCR)
V, W
Waiting
period
Waiver
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