preferred provider
Top-choice service source
A preferred provider is a doctor, hospital, or other healthcare service that has contracted with an insurance company to offer services at reduced rates.
Patients typically pay less when using preferred providers than when going "out of network." The term appears most often in the phrase preferred provider organization or PPO, a type of health insurance plan built around such arrangements.
- doctorLicensed medical healer
- payorOne who remits money
- copaymentsPatient's portion of charges
- out of pocketPaid from personal funds
- fee scheduleListed prices for services
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- health insurancepremium, deductible, copay, coverage, health insurance card
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