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2. Utilization management - Wikipedia

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   Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...

3. Holistic Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide - WebMD

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   Takeaways. Holistic medicine is an approach to health care that takes the whole person – mind, spirit, and body – into consideration. It includes a variety of practices, ranging from ...

4. What Is Primary Care? Healthcare Services, Procedures, Doctors

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   The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine defines primary care as “the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for ...

5. What Is a Urologist? What They Do, Procedures, and More

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   biopsies of the bladder, kidneys, or prostate; a cystectomy, which involves removing the bladder, to treat cancer; extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy, which involves breaking up kidney stones ...

6. Healthcare in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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   The federal government's role is mostly limited to coordinating the affairs of the university teaching hospitals, Federal Medical Centres (tertiary healthcare) while the state government manages the various general hospitals (secondary healthcare) and the local government focuses on dispensaries (primary healthcare), [5] which are regulated by the federal government through the NPHCDA.

7. Disease management (health) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, disease management is a large industry with many vendors. Major disease management organizations based on revenues and other criteria [5] [6] include Accordant (a subsidiary of Caremark), Alere (now including ParadigmHealth and Matria Healthcare), [7] Caremark (excluding its Accordant subsidiary), Evercare, Health Dialog, Healthways, LifeMasters (now part of StayWell ...