providers
Glossary Template Headline
- Identification Card
- Document issued to a covered member confirming his or her eligibility to claim benefits.
- Immunizations
- Vaccines against certain diseases, which can be administered either orally or by injection.
- In-Network
- Refers to the use of providers who participate in the health plan's provider network. Many benefit plans encourage members to use participating in-network providers to reduce out-of-pocket expenses. See Out-of-Network.
- Incidental Procedures
- Procedures carried out at the same time as a primary procedure that are clinically integral to the performance of the primary procedure. A participating provider has contractually agreed to write-off the charges.
- Indemnity Plan
- Provision of specific cash payment reimbursement for designated covered services. Payments are made either to the member or directly to a participating provider.
- Independent or Individual Practice Association (IPA)
- A type of organization which contracts with individual providers or groups of providers to arrange for the provision of their professional services to enrollees of a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO).
- Infertility
- Term used to describe the inability to become pregnant after a year or more of regular sexual relations without the use of contraception.
- Infusion Therapy
- Treatment that places therapeutic agents into the vein, including intravenous feeding.
- Inpatient
- Person admitted to the hospital to receive hospital services, including room, board and general nursing care.
- Insured
- Person, including dependents, covered by a contract. Also known as "covered person" or "member."
- Investigational Procedures
- See Experimental Procedures.
