Health Care

Insurance Benefits

Payments or services provided under stated circumstances under the terms of an insurance policy. In prepayment programs, benefits are the services the programs will provide at defined locations and to the extent needed.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Payments or services provided under stated circumstances under the terms of an insurance policy. In prepayment programs, benefits are the services the programs will provide at defined locations and to the extent needed.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Benefit, Insurance
  • Benefits, Insurance
  • Insurance Benefit
  • Health Benefits
  • Insurance Beneficiary
  • Beneficiaries, Insurance
  • Beneficiary, Insurance
  • Benefit, Health
  • Benefits, Health
  • Health Benefit
  • Insurance Beneficiaries

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

coordinate IM with specific type of insurance (IM) + geographic term if pertinent

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History Note

78

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Previous Indexing

  • Insurance (1966-1977)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N03w.219w.521.576w.130

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Insurance Benefits. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007342. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007342
  2. Insurance Benefits. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58037486