by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 26, 2009 | Definitions
An advance directive tells your doctor what kind of care you would like to have if you become unable to make medical decisions for yourself. Your requests may come into play if your illness is one you won’t recover from or if you are premanently...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 18, 2009 | Definitions
Steps for making a bank deposit of any kind: Gather the checks and/or cash that you wish to deposit and total them. Prepare the deposit slip. You may have a book of deposit slips (business account) or a deposit slip found in the back of your check book (personal...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 17, 2009 | Definitions
A formulary is a listing of preferred prescription drugs (generic or brand name) chosen by a health plan/payer/insuror or Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) for their cost to benefit ratio. Open Formulary = covers formulary and non-formulary drugs but charges the employer...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 17, 2009 | Definitions
EAP is a benefit provided by some employers to assist employees with personal problems, problems at home and problems at work. Employees may contact the EAP Providers (usually a behavioral health provider) themselves or may be referred to EAP by a supervisor or...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 11, 2009 | Definitions
The MML is the specification for optimum exchange of clinical data between different clinical institutions. The database can be considered to be a kind of table. Each institution uses a uniquely defined table. Therefore, the exchange of a simple data set such as that...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 5, 2009 | Definitions
“Gomer” stands for Get Out of My Emergency Room, reflecting the annoyance of the doctors. It first appeared in widespread print in the medical novel The House of God by Samuel Shem, and was used mostly in the 1980s and 1990s. It is still used today,...
