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kick payment

kick payment noun: a payment made to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) Organizations (including health maintenance organizations (HMOs)) in the United States in the event of a live birth on the part of one of their members. Meant to compensate for the high variability of costs incurred in covering people who have become pregnant and/or given birth, which might create large losses for an MMC in a given year in which an unusually high number of plan members have had children or otherwise required intensive obstetric care.

Noun

kick payment (plural kick payments)

  1. A payment made to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) Organizations (including health maintenance organizations (HMOs)) in the United States in the event of a live birth on the part of one of their members. Meant to compensate for the high variability of costs incurred in covering people who have become pregnant and/or given birth, which might create large losses for an MMC in a given year in which an unusually high number of plan members have had children or otherwise required intensive obstetric care.

Forms of kick payment

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Questions about kick payment

What does kick payment mean?
Kick payment means a payment made to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) Organizations (including health maintenance organizations (HMOs)) in the United States in the event of a live birth on the part of one of their members. Meant to compensate for the high variability of costs incurred in covering people who have become pregnant and/or given birth, which might create large losses for an MMC in a given year in which an unusually high number of plan members have had children or otherwise required intensive obstetric care.
What part of speech is kick payment?
Kick payment is a noun.
What is the plural of kick payment?
The plural of kick payment is kick payments.

Words near kick payment in the dictionary

  1. kick one's heels
  2. kick out
  3. kick out the jams
  4. kick over
  5. kick over the traces
  6. kick payment
  7. kick plate
  8. kick plates
  9. kick pleat
  10. kick pleats
  11. kick return

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