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kick payment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables
kick- -pay-ment
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Inflected Forms

kick payments (plural)

Questions

What does kick payment mean?
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.

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