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MEDIGAP INSURANCE
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Descriptor
English
:
Insurance, Medigap
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Seguro Adicional
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Seguro de Saúde (Situações Limítrofes)
Synonyms
English
:
Medigap Insurance
Tree Number:
N03.219.521.576.343.539
Definition
English
:
A
supplemental health
insurance
policy
sold by private
insurance
companies and designed to pay for
health care costs
and services that are not paid for either by
Medicare
alone or by a combination of
Medicare
and existing private
health
insurance benefits
. (From Facts on File
Dictionary
of
Health
Care
Management
, 1988)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
insures the gap between payments by private insurers &
Medicare
; specify geog
History Note
English
:
92
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
ST
standards
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
UT
utilization
Record Number:
30036
Unique Identifier:
D017054
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