The word “provider” should be politically incorrect
It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, "What's in a name?" he didn't have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term "provider" has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for…
It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term “provider” has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) which defined a provider as a Medicare participant that is contractually obligated to provide health care to Medicare beneficiaries. This was beginning of clubbing all …
The word “provider” should be politically incorrect
