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Healthcare provider

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

nounCore term

In healthcare management, healthcare provider means: A person or organisation that delivers medical care to patients, such as a doctor, a hospital, a clinic or a home care service.

In Turkish: sağlık hizmeti sunucusu, sağlık kuruluşu, sağlık hizmeti veren

How it is used

Common in contracts, insurance documents and policy papers, where it covers everyone who treats patients. Insurers talk about 'providers and payers', and managers often shorten it to 'provider'. Both individuals and institutions can be providers.

Example sentences

  1. As a private healthcare provider, we depend on contracts with several insurers.

  2. Patients can now compare healthcare providers by waiting times and outcomes.

Common collocations

  • private healthcare provider
  • public healthcare provider
  • network of healthcare providers
  • provider contract
  • payerAn organisation that pays for patients' healthcare, such as a government health fund, a social security institution or an insurance company.
  • reimbursementThe money that an insurer or public payer pays a hospital or doctor for care already given to a patient, according to agreed rules and prices.
  • primary careThe first point of contact with the health system, such as family doctors and local health centres, which deals with common problems, prevention and referrals.
  • health insuranceA system or contract in which regular payments to a public fund or a company cover all or part of a person's medical costs.

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