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Glossary of Nursing
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Participating Physician: A doctor who
agrees to accept assignment on all Medicare claims. A participating physician
may only bill you for the Medicare deductible and/or coinsurance amounts.
Participating Supplier: A medical supplier
who agrees to accept assignment on all Medicare claims. A participating supplier
may only bill you for the Medicare deductible and/or coinsurance amounts.
Peer Review Organization: Groups of
doctors and other health-care experts paid by the federal government to check
and improve upon the care provide to Medicare patients. Peer Review
Organizations must review complaints concerning the quality of care given by
hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care agencies.
Personal Representative: One who stands in
the place of another.
Physical Therapy: Treatment given for an
injury or a disease by mechanical means, such as exercise or massage.
Physician's Assistant: A person with two
or more years advanced training and who has passed a specific exam. Physician's
assistants work with doctors and can do some of the things that a doctor can do.
Plaintiff: In civil law, the person who
brings an action or starts a lawsuit.
Plan of Care: Under the federal Nursing
Home Reform Act of 1987, nursing homes are required to develop comprehensive
individualized care plans for residents. This is a written plan stating what
kinds of services and care a person needs for a specific health-care problem.
The assessment must be completed within 14 days of admission. A periodic review
is done.
Pleading: A document filed in a court that
pertains to a case.
Power of Attorney: Written document
authorizing one person to take certain legal actions on behalf of the person
giving the power of attorney.
Precedent: Decision by a court that
provides an example or authority for later cases involving a similar question of
law.
Premium: Monthly payment for health-care
coverage to Medicare, an insurance company, or a health-care plan.
Preponderance of the Evidence: The amount
of evidence needed for a plaintiff to win in a civil action. A preponderance of
the evidence is the greater weight of the evidence or the more convincing
evidence in comparison to the evidence offered in opposition. A plaintiff can
win by a preponderance of the evidence even if plaintiff's evidence merely tips
the scales in plaintiff's favor.
Primary Care Physician (PCP): A doctor
trained to give basic health care. A PCP is the first doctor seen for a specific
health problem. The PCP then coordinates with other health-care professionals
for future care and/or preventative health care.
Privileged Communication: Statement
protected from forced disclosure in court because the statement was made within
a "protected" relationship such as attorney/client.
Procedural Law: Generally, the body of law
establishing the method or procedure of enforcing rights or obtaining redress
for invasion of rights.
Provider: A doctor or other health-care
professional or a hospital or other health care facility that provides
health-care services.
Proximate Cause: The proximate cause of an
injury is the primary or moving cause that produces the injury and without which
the accident could not have happened, if the injury is one which might be
reasonably anticipated or foreseen as a natural consequence of the wrongful act.
Psychoactive Drug: A medication that
alters the mental process.
Punitive Damages or Exemplary Damages:
Compensation greater than is necessary to pay a plaintiff for a loss. These
damages are awarded because the loss was aggravated by violence, oppression,
malice, fraud or wanton and wicked conduct on the part of the defendant. Such
damages are intended to punish the defendant for his evil behavior or make an
example of him or her.
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