Health Care

Major Medical Insurance

Insurance providing a broad range of medical services and supplies, when prescribed by a physician, whether or not the patient is hospitalized. It frequently is an extension of a basic policy and benefits will not begin until the basic policy is exhausted.

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Abstract

Insurance providing a broad range of medical services and supplies, when prescribed by a physician, whether or not the patient is hospitalized. It frequently is an extension of a basic policy and benefits will not begin until the basic policy is exhausted.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Insurance, Major Medical
  • Medical Insurance, Major
  • Catastrophic Health Insurance
  • Comprehensive Health Insurance
  • Insurance, Health, Catastrophic
  • Catastrophic Health Insurances
  • Comprehensive Health Insurances
  • Health Insurance, Catastrophic
  • Health Insurance, Comprehensive
  • Health Insurances, Catastrophic
  • Health Insurances, Comprehensive
  • Insurance, Catastrophic Health
  • Insurance, Comprehensive Health
  • Insurances, Catastrophic Health
  • Insurances, Comprehensive Health

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify geog if possible

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History Note

68

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Previous Indexing

  • Insurance, Health (1966-1967)

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W 160

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Major Medical Insurance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007354. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007354
  2. Major Medical Insurance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70450982