Services aimed at preventing a disease from occurring, or preventing or minimizing its consequences. This includes care aimed at warding off illnesses (immunizations, for example), at early detection of disease (Pap smears, for example), and at stopping further...
Care at “first contact” with the health care system, including an array of non-specialist services provided by physicians, nurse practitioners, or physician’s assistants. More simply, the care that most people receive for most of their problems that...
Established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a program that makes Medicare bonus payments to primary care physicians for primary care services. The ACA extablished that a typical office-based, general internist who qualifies for the bonus would get approximately...
A Medicaid managed care program in which an eligible individual may use services only with authorization from his or her assigned primary care provider. That provider is responsible for locating, coordinating, and monitoring all primary and other medical services for...
A provider, usually a physician, specializing in internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, or geriatrics (but can also be a nurse practitioner, physician assistant or health care clinic), who serves as the patient’s first point of contact with the health...