International Phonetic Alphabet : The IPA was first published in 1888 by the Association Phonétique Internationale (International Phonetic Association), a group of French language teachers founded by Paul Passy. The aim of the organization was to devise a system for transcribing the sounds of speech which was independent of any particular language and applicable to all languages. A phonetic script for English created in 1847 by Isaac Pitman and Henry Ellis was used a a model for the IPA. The current version of the IPA was published in 1993 and updated in 1996. Uses: in dictionaries to indicate the pronunciation of words; as a basis for creating new writing systems for previously unwritten languages; to transcribe the sounds of languages which are written with non-latin alphabets. meteorology
Independent Practioners Association. An association of doctors and other health care providers who contract with health plans to provide a specified range of services at contracted rates.
(Independent Practice Association): A confederation of physicians and other providers assembled for the purpose of contracting with payers. Participating providers accept the fee schedules negotiated by the IPA, but typically may continue to see patients covered by other plans.
Independent Providers Association.
the International Phonetic Alphabet. An internationally used system of symbols for representing pronunciation. IPA also refers to the symbols themselves. The IPA for chihuahua, for example, is
Internationally agreed phonetic alphabet for writing down the sounds of languages in a consistent fashion.
Individual Practice Association. A type of HMO which contracts with a physician-controlled entity, usually on a capitulated or discounted fee for service basis to compensate physicians for their medical services. IPAs may also serve non-HMO patients.
IPAs generally include large numbers of individual private practice physicians who are paid either a fee or a fixed amount per patient to care for the IPA's members.
Insolvency Practitioners Association
International Phonetic Association. Click here to follow a link to the IPA home page.
See 'Independent Practice Asssociation'.
Independent Practice Associations. IPAs are similar to HMOs, except that individuals receive care in a physician's own office, rather than in an HMO facility.
ˌaj ˌpi ˈe] -International Phonetic Alphabet, or International Phonetic Association
Individual Practice Association. An association of physicians that contracts with a health maintenance organization, limited service health organization, or preferred provider plan to provide health care services.
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE ASSOCIATION. A physician organization which typically contracts with an HMO to provide services to the HMO's enrollees. The HMO usually makes capitated payments to the IPA; however, the IPA may reimburse its physicians on a fee-for-service basis. Physicians are in solo practice and can contract with other HMOs and see other fee-for-service patients.
individual practice association. A means of organizing a health maintenance organization (HMO) in which the participating physicians maintain their own separate offices. Such physicians usually treat both private patients and HMO members. See also group practice model (GPM). | Back
See individual practice association (IPA). | Back
A group of physicians that contracts for services with insurance plans.
Independent Physician Association. A partnership, association or corporation that delivers or arranges for the delivery of health services and which has entered into a contract with health professionals to practice medicine or osteopathy. Under Choice 1, physicians are required to use a specific hospital associated with their IPA. If you decide to access your care using Choice 1, all covered services, except for emergency and urgently needed services, must be obtained from the IPA with which your PCP is affiliated.
A group of Physicians organized as a legal entity which has entered into an Agreement with the Plan to provide benefits to Members. Members are assigned to specific IPAs based on their PCP selection.
Individual/Independent Practice Association. (see also Horizontal Network, Provider-Sponsored Network, Vertical Network): A form of health care practice in which providers are organized into a group via a contract, an arrangement that facilitates their contracting with several health care plans; providers generally remain in their independent offices, seeing both enrollees of the IPA and private-pay patients.
Individual Practice Association. A model in which a management organization is contracted to administer a plan and contract with an association of independent treatment professionals.
See Independent Practice Association.
(Internation Phonetic Alphabet)
International Pediatric Association.
Independent Practice Association. An HMO that contracts with individual doctors to serve its members. Payment is typically through capitation or a modified fee-for-service arrangement. IPA doctors may also treat patients with other types of insurance, and thus may not be financially dependent on the HMO.
Independent Practice Association. Organization of physicians who have joined together for purposes of contracting with HMO PPO s, or other payers. IPA physicians continue to practice in solo settings or in groups, maintain their offices and regular practices, and usually are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis.
An independent group of physicians who contract with an HMO to provide services for the HMO members. Some health insurance applications will ask for a physician's IPA number. It can usually be found in an online provider directory for the health plan or by calling the physician's office.
Individual practice association. A type of HMO in which a partnership, corporation, or association has entered into an arrangement for provision of their service. Practitioners provide care in their own offices and serve HMO members as part of their regular practice. IPAs are one source of professional services for HMOs and are modeled after medical foundations.
individual practice association. A type of open-panel HMO that contracts with an association of physicians who agree to provide services for HMO members.
Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Independent Practice Association. An organization comprised of individual physicians or physicians in group practices that contracts with the insurer on behalf of its member physicians to provide healthcare services.
International Phonetic Association. Representative organization for phoneticians. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Independent Practice Association. A group of individualphysicians or small group practices banded together to contract todeliver HMO or PPO services. Usually based around a hospital staffmembership.
Independent Practice Association. A type of HMO that contracts with physicians who are in private practice (instead of groups) to provide services to patients in the physician's private office.
An organization of physicians who are contracted with an HMO plan.
A partnership, association, or corporation that delivers or arranges for the delivery of health services and which has entered into a contract with health professionals, a majority of whom are licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy.
An independent group of physicians who unite with an HMO to offer services for the HMO members.
independent practice association. An organization comprised of individual physicians or physicians in small group practices that contracts with Managed Care Organizations on behalf of its member physicians to provide health care services.
International Phonetic Alphabet[ edit] - masculine (word gender)
An Independent Practice Association (IPA) is typically a group of physicians who organize themselves into a contracting entity to care for an HMO's and PPO's members. It can also be a licensed HMO owned by its member physicians.
Independent Practice Association. A legal entity or other group of providers that contract with managed care plans while maintaining their separate practice. A member who selects an IPA-affiliated primary care office generally will be referred to specialists and hospitals affiliated with the IPA, unless the member's medical needs extend beyond the capability of these providers. Network Physicians, hospitals and other health care providers who contract with the companies to participate in health benefits plans. For certain HMO and PPO plans, a member must access care through the network to receive the maximum level of benefits.
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE ASSOCIATION. A type of HMO that contracts with sole practitioners in medicine, dentistry, and other health-care fields. From the patients' perspective, they receive network care when selecting among the affiliate providers. However, these practitioners may also serve fee-for-service patients. IPAs may pay their physicians fee for service or may capitate their physicians, but the physicians bear some degree of risk for medical expenses.
Individual practice association. A type of health maintenance organization ( HMO) that contracts with a physician-controlled entity, usually on a capitated or disconnected fee-for-service basis to pay for medical services. IPAs may also serve non-HMO patients.
Independent Practice Association. a group of physicians with separate offices who form an organization to contract, manage and share financial responsibilities for providing healthcare services to health plan members.
A standard system for indicating specific sounds, first introduced in 1886. The Unicode character set includes all single symbols and diacritics in the most recent revision of the IPA, which occurred in 1989, as well as a few IPA symbols no longer in use. lexicon See pronunciation lexicon.
Independent Practice Association. A health maintenance organization delivery model in which the HMO contracts with a physician organization, which, in turn, contracts with individual physicians. The IPA physicians practice in their own offices and continue to see fee-for-service patients. The HMO reimburses the IPA on a capitated basis; however, the IPA usually reimburses the physicians on a fee-for-service basis. This type of system combines prepayment with the traditional means of delivering health care.
Individual Practice Association. An HMO model in which the HMO contracts with a physician organization that in turn contracts with individual physicians. The IPA physicians provide care to HMO members from their private offices and continue to see their fee-for-service patients.
International Phonetic Alphabet. the alphabet used by linguists to uniquely represent the sounds of the worldâ€(tm)s languages. A transcription of a word in the IPA can show every phonetic detail of how each sound is pronounced.
