kick payment

English

Noun

kick payment (plural kick payments)

  1. (Medicaid) 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.[1]

References

  1. ^ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2798142
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