Medically appropriate care definition

Medically appropriate care means health care that is suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place.

Examples of Medically appropriate care in a sentence

  • Medically appropriate care should never be withheld solely because of costs.

  • Medically appropriate care is defined as care that is necessary for the diagnosis, treatment, and/or management of a medical, surgical, or behavioral health condition; within accepted standards of medical, surgical, or behavioral health care; and provided in the least intensive setting appropriate to the condition of the Member; not for the convenience of the Member, his/her family and/or provider.

  • Medically appropriate care necessary to ensure pain relief will beprovided.

  • Medically appropriate care necessary to ensure pain relief will be provided.

  • Medically appropriate care neces- sary to ensure pain relief will be provided.

  • Medically appropriate care is care that is needed for your particular condition and that you receive at the most appropriate level of service.

Related to Medically appropriate care

  • medically approved means certified by a medical practitioner;

  • Medically Necessary means a service which is appropriate and consistent with the treatment of the condition in accordance with accepted standards of community practice.

  • Medically Necessary Services means those covered services that are, under the terms and conditions of the contract, determined through contractor utilization management to be:

  • Palliative care means medical service rendered to reduce or moderate temporarily the intensity of an otherwise stable medical condition, but does not include those medical services ren- dered to diagnose, heal or permanently alleviate or eliminate a medical condition.

  • Primary care physician means a physician qualified to be an attending physician according to ORS 656.005(12)(b)(A) and who is a general practitioner, family practitioner, or internal medicine practitioner.