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direct care workers

Nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal care aides provide an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the paid hands-on, long-term services and supports and personal assistance received by Americans who are elderly or living with disabilities or other chronic...

Direct Graduate Medical Education payment

A Medicare payment to approved teaching hospitals to help cover the direct costs of training residents to become board-eligible in their field. Hospitals receive full payments to help cover resident salaries, fringe benefits and compensation for attending physicians,...

direct-to-consumer advertising

The use of mass media (television, newspapers, magazines, etc.) to reach the general public. DTC advertising is often used by the pharmaceutical industry to promote their products. These advertisements must meet certain standards under federal regulations.