New Patients definition

New Patients means those patients who have not received services from the Network Provider in the immediately preceding three years. A patient shall not become a new patient solely by changing coverage from one Customer to another. Network Provider shall make available Covered Services to Participants on a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day per week basis in accordance with generally accepted community standards for the provision of such care.

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New Patients means the initial encounter with a patient under any of the following circumstances: Initial care for hospital inpatient or patient admitted on observation status; Initial consultation with any inpatient or outpatient; and Initial visit with a patient in the emergency department (ED) who is not subsequently admitted as an inpatient or to observation status. The following will NOT be considered New Patients under any circumstances: Any patient referred, directly or indirectly, to Hospital by the Physician; Any patient previously under either the (i) Physician’s care or (ii) another Inpatient Team physician’s care who is readmitted within seventy two (72) hours of discharge with the same diagnosis as the prior inpatient stay; Any patient previously counted as a New Patient during the same hospital visit for the same diagnosis or problem (e.g., by another physician member of the Inpatient Team during the same hospital visit).

New Patients means patients who have not been seen by Provider in the three (3) years prior to the date notice is provided to Anthem. Changing category of coverage or changing from one provider or entity to another does not make a patient a "new patient".

Examples of New Patients in a sentence

• In addition, a 10% premium shall be added to this payment for those New Patients between 65 and 74 years of age and a 20% premium shall be added for those patients 75 and over.

• Physician shall receive incentive compensation (“Incentive Compensation”) based on the number of New Patients and Procedures performed by Physician during the twelve month period beginning on the Effective Date.

• For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing does not limit Customer’s ability to use its current internal systems to schedule New Patients or to pre-book a Patient's next visit during their mammography screening appointments; however, it does prohibit Customer from sending Scheduling Communications to Existing Patients who have exceeded 11.5 months since their last screening mammogram date.

• New Patients will be charged $35.00 Hygiene Patients will be charged $50.00 Surgical Patients will be charged $100.00 Please help us service you better by keeping scheduled appointments.

• All New Patients seen at a Non-PDG Office shall be assigned to Northland, and Northland shall have the right to assign them to individual doctors employed by Northland.

• All New Patients seen at a PDG Office shall be assigned to PDG, and PDG shall have the right to assign them to individual doctors employed or otherwise retained (hereinafter simply “employed”) by PDG.

• New Patients approved for ABA therapy services are responsible for any and all charges not paid for by healthcare insurance payers (private or public).

More Definitions of New Patients

New Patients means Customer's mammography patients who have not been to a Covered Location for a screening study within the past five (5) years. For the avoidance of doubt, a patient is a New Patient the first time they visit a Customer Covered Location; however, once a patient completes a visit to a Customer Covered Location, they become an Existing Patient (until they no longer qualify as a "New Patient" per the previous sentence).

New Patients means those patients who have not received services from the Network Provider in the immediately preceding three years. A patient shall not become a new patient solely by changing coverage from one Customer to another.