inpatient and outpatient care, but also to include In an effort to contain these overall medical costs, utilization review procedures were expanded to include a much broader range of services, such as inpatient and outpatient hospital care, drugs, mental health, substance abuse, physical therapy, and chiropractic care. This in turn led to the technique of “Utilization Management” (UM),
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In any type of health insurance, the determining factor regarding pricing, plan development, forecasting and eventually, controlling costs, is utilization, i.e. how much and how often the system is used. The more health insurance is “utilized”, the more expensive it becomes, as benefits must be provided by health providers who must be compensated for their services.
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