Health Care Reform

**Definition:** Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.

**Tree numbers:** - I01.655.500.608.400.285 - I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 - N03.349.285 - N03.623.500.608.428.285 - N04.590.374.285 - N05.300.380

**Synonyms:** - Healthcare Reform