Generically, a professional engaged in the delivery of health services, including physicians, dentists, nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, clinical psychologists, etc. Hospitals and long term care facilities are also providers. The Medicare program uses the term "provider" more narrowly, to mean participating institutions: hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, etc.

An individual or facility (such as a doctor, hospital or durable medical equipment supplier), which provides health care services. ( See also Health Care Provider and Supplier.)

An organization, agency, or individual that delivers services or treatment to a youth or family.

This is usually understood to mean a professional provider of Internet access, whereby the term is now used by many other different kinds of services offered over the Internet, e.g. Web Design Provider, Service Provider, etc.

Person (physician) or institution (hospital) that provides medical care.

In health insurance, it refers to an eligible doctor, specialist, hospital, laboratory or other health professional (such as a chiropractor) or facility which provides health care services.

A health care professional or facility that provides care, such as a doctor, specialist, nurse, health center, physical therapist, lab, hospital, etc.

anyone or any organization that provides health care, including hospitals, physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists and so forth

General term used to refer to those that provide a health care service.  In it's most common usage provider includes: Health professionals (physicians, practitioners), Institutions (hospitals, skilled nursing facilities), and Ancillary entities (home care agencies, pharmacies, medical suppliers).

Any health care professional who, by the nature of their professional responsibilities, affect the safety of patients. This term usually refers to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinical personnel.

a person or organisation who renders medical/health care services.

A term used in the reformed NHS to cover the delivery of healthcare. The main groups of providers are NHS Trusts covering one or more hospitals, clinics or residences for patients.

A person or agency who delivers services to people with disabilities.

An individual or entity and its employees and subcontractors that directly provide health care services to managed care enrollees under the Medicaid managed care program.

A driver object that provides services of some kind to its client. In a driver stack, the provider in a provider/client relationship is closer to the Platform Expert. See also "client".

Sometimes called vendor; a person, group, or agency other than a DHS worker who performs a service for a client for a fee paid by DHS.

an NHS Trust (hospital, community unit or ambulance service) or independent health care organisation from which health care is purchased.

A health care practitioner such as a doctor, dentist, or chiropractor, or a health care facility, such as a hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office.

is the name used to describe any organisation which provides a service. It is often used by purchasers/commissioners to refer to the organisations they fund. They are also sometimes called contractors. In health and social care, providers includes NHS Trusts, GPs, voluntary and private sector organisations as well as some parts of Social Services which provide services.

is a type of responder and refers to a UDI module that provides a service to a client.

An entity that is giving service to the patient. May indicate the company or organization, or refer to an individual mental health professional.

A party who provides a service. May be an internal service department (e.g. engineering, computer department, building services), or an external outsourcing company or third party supplier.

Any entity that provides a medical service (Such as a doctor, medical clinic, hospital, congregate care facility or other medical facility).

Usually refers to a hospital or doctor who "provides" care. A health plan, managed care company or insurance carrier is not a healthcare provider. Those entities are called payers. The lines are blurred sometimes, however, when providers create or manage health plans. At that point, a provider is also a payer. A payer can be provider if the payer owns or manages providers, as with some staff model HMOs.

A generic term for any person or entity approved to give care to Medicare beneficiaries and to receive payment from Medicare.

Anyone "providing" child care services (i.e., child care centers, family child care homes, school-age child care programs, nannies)

The provider performs the service requested by the consumer.

Any individual, group of individuals or organization that provides a health care service, such as a physician, hospital, group practice, nursing home, pharmacy, etc.

Any person (doctor or nurse) or institution (hospital, clinic, or laboratory) certified in providing medical care.

a medical professional who provides covered services approved by the health plan's contract. Providers include hospitals, physicians, pharmacies and laboratories.

A hospital, skilled nursing facility, ambulatory surgical facility, physician, practitioner, laboratory, or other individual or organization that is licensed to provide medical or surgical services, supplies and/or accommodations.

Any supplier of services, i.e.. physician, pharmacist, case management firm, etc.

A Hospital, Other Facility Provider, Physician or Other Professional Provider.

Service providers package and deploy technologies and services for use by end-user s. For example, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) maintains network infrastructure for use by its clients. Service providers often act as an intermediary between developer s and end-user

someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

a body that offers domain name dispute resolution services in accordance with the MYDRP Policy and Rules

a doctor , nurse practitioner, dentist or other health professional

a hospital, healthcare facility, physician or other medical professional that provides healthcare services

a medical practitioner or covered facility recognized by GHI for reimbursement purposes

an object that supplies a subset of the directory contents to the directory service

an operator of communications, providing a user with possibility to access Internet, including the e-mail services

an organization that makes data and/or services available to users over the network

a package or set of packages by some vendor that implement cryptographic services

a person who provides a service

a piece of code that supports a WSDL extension and allows invocation of the service through that particular implementation

a software module that provides a uniform interface between a service and a data source

a term used to describe an individual or group of individuals who furnish health care services

A physician, hospital, medical care facility, or other type of medical personnel who provide health care.

individual or organization that provides health care or long-term care services (e.g., doctors, hospital, physical therapists, home health aides, and more).

Organisations that develop and implement programmes or services.

The professional who provided the service or product (e.g. a doctor, dentist or pharmacist).

Any individual or group of individuals that provide a health care service such as physicians, hospitals, etc.

nbspAny person (doctor, dentist, therapist, etc) or institution (hospital or clinic) that provides medical care.

A physician, hospital, skilled nursing facility, intensive care facility, health care professional or other entity which provides health care services.

A physician, hospital, clinic, group practice, nursing home or any entity, individual or group of individuals who provide healthcare services or supplies.

Service Provider - A provider who operates the access networks and MPLS backbone and provides MPLS VPN service on the backbone.

The individual (physician or other health care professional) who performs the medical services.

means a Service Provider or Infrastructure Provider.

DWCF Business Area Activity that produces, or makes available, the goods or services to satisfy the customer's requirement. back to the top

It should come as no shock that a provider supplies or provides telecommunication services to a customer. Once upon a time there was no distinction among providers, carriers, resellers, or any other specialization. Now that things have become more complicated, the telecommunications industry needed a word to summarize the concept of full-service contracting.

Any physicians, hospitals or outpatient facility providing health care services. Usually licensed by the state.

Providers are used by Connectors, Agents and Services to allow them to read their configurations. An example of a provider is the Tab Delimited Address Map provider. This provider reads the address map that is used to determine mail routing between connectors. In order to allow the applications to read configuration data from different sources, different providers would be used. For instance, SQL Server would have its own providers.

A person or organization that provides medical services, such as a doctor, hospital, x-ray company, home health agency, pharmacy, etc.

Any person or entity that is paid to deliver services and/or supports to families or children.

A provider of medical services enrolled in the Medicaid program for the State of Illinois.

Any person, group or organisation supplying a service to children and young people.

A doctor, hospital, health care practitioner, pharmacy, or health care facility.

A physician, hospital, health-care professional or health-care facility.

A doctor, hospital, health care professional, health care facility, or manufacturer of medical equipment.

An organization offering access to the Internet. Also called ISP (= Internet Service Provider).

A physician, hospital or other person, entity or facility licensed to provide a health care service.

Any supplier of healthcare services, i.e., physicians, practitioner, pharmacies, hospitals, or other healthcare facilities that provide services to members.

A medical doctor or clinic that offers treatment.

Any person or place that provides health care services, including doctors, dentists, hospitals, ambulance services, pharmacies, etc.

A term used to describe a hospital, physician, or group of physicians.

means a duly licensed hospital, physician, or other provider performing within the scope of the appropriate licensure.

A doctor or entity (home health agency, hospital) approved to give care to Medicare beneficiaries and to receive payment from Medicare.

Individual offering child care services child care services, i.e., child care centers, family child care homes, school-age child care programs.

A doctor, hospital, health care professional or health care facility licensed and/or certified by the State or Medicare to deliver or furnish health care and/or services.

health care professionals who perform specific professional medical services. Many times this refers specifically to physicians. Sometimes this also relates health care professionals such as treatment centers, nurses, physical therapists, and other specialized doctors.

any person or entity providing health care services, including hospitals, physicians, home health agencies and nursing homes. Usually licensed by the state.

A physician, hospital, group practice, nursing home, pharmacy or any individual or group of individuals that provides a health care service.

a doctor, nurse, group, hospital, or facility that treats you.

Now CAI's Internet provider search service. Members can access ProviderNow to search for in-network providers based on several different criteria including provider name, specialty, city, and zip code.

an organisation or individual providing health disability services.

A hospital, pharmacist, registered nurse, organization, institution, or person licensed to provide health care services in Texas. A physician also may be referred to as a provider. The term provider is often used collectively to refer to individual or facilities who provide health services.

A doctor, hospital, or clinic.

is a term used for a person or an institution that provides medical care. Doctors, nurses, dentists, hospitals, and clinics are considered health care providers.

Any person or institution which is licensed to provide medical care.

Provider is a term used for health professionals who provide health care services. Sometimes, the term refers only to physicians. Often, however, the term also refers to other health care professionals such as hospitals, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, physical therapists, and others offering specialized health care services.

Also called "Health Care Provider." An individual or facility (such as a doctor, hospital or durable medical equipment supplier), which provides health care services.

A Provider of healthcare services, such as a Physician, Hospital, Skilled Nursing Facility, Home Health Agency, pharmacy, laboratory, ambulance company, X-ray Facility or other licensed Health Professional.

A health professional that provides health care services.

An individual or organization providing respite care services to families or caregivers.

A kernel module that implements a particular type of instrumentation on behalf of the DTrace framework. The provider exports a namespace of probes and a stability matrix for its name and data semantics, as shown in the chapters of this book.

An individual (physician, nurse, therapist, etc.) or institution (hospital, nursing home, etc.) providing medical care.

The person or institution—doctor, nurse, therapist, hospital, etc.—that cares for the patient.

Any person or organization that provides healthcare, such as a physician, hospital, nursing home, clinic, pharmacy, physical therapist or any other formal healthcare giver.

A facility, licensed as such, that provides health services for an individual. Q-T

a hospital, physician, pharmacy, or other supplier of the health plan.

People and/or institutions that give health care services; it includes social workers, physicians, hospitals, nurses, or any other formal health care giver.

Any healthcare professional or organization that provides services, including doctors, hospitals, mental health centers, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, physical therapists, etc.

Person or facility providing services or supplies related to medical care.

a physician, hospital, health professional and other entity or institutional health care provider that provides a health care service.

Any person or entity providing health care. The term may refer to physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, physical therapists and other professionals; as well as hospitals, extended care facilities and clinics.

An agency, private sector, or public reimbursable source that is performing, or will perform, a commercial activity; sometimes referred to as a service provider.

The person who has primary responsibility for assessing and treating the condition of the patient at a given contact and exercises independent judgment in the care of the patient. This would include a practitioner licensed as a Medical Doctor (M.D.), a Doctor of Osteopathy, (D.O.), Doctor of Dental Surgery, (D.D.S.), or Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, (D.P.M.). 2

Any person, group or organisation supplying a community care service.

the party that gives a medical service - a doctor, an ambulance company, or a hospital.

A Qualified Person who supplies services that are eligible for benefits from LPC.

A generic term for an organisation that delivers a healthcare or care service.

A licensed health care facility, program, agency, physician or health professional that delivers health care services.

A doctor, hospital or other person or place that provides medical services and/or supplies.

The organization concerned with the provision of IT services.

A doctor, nurse practitioner, optometrist, psychologist or other medical professional qualified to treat patients.

a physician or other type of medical professional who provides health care to patients. Medical facilities, such as hospitals and health centers, are also referred to as providers.

One who provides medical care, usually a physician or hospital.

See Service Provider

Awidely used term to describe those persons orentities (such as hospitals) that provide health care to patients. Thisterm is intensely disliked by physicians, who regard themselves asdoctors, not "providers."

A person, practice or facility that provides health care services. Providers include doctors, specialists, nurses, health centers, physical therapists, labs, hospitals, etc.

A person or agency that delivers needed services to persons with disabilities.

Individual (doctor, nurse, therapist, etc.) or institution (hospital, nursing facility, etc.) providing medical care.

An Internet Service Provider, or ISP.

A doctor, hospital, health care professional, or health care facility which provides health care services.

legal entity with direct service responsibility.

A physician, hospital, laboratory, pharmacy or other organization that provides health care, goods or services.

The organisation concerned with the provision of IT services.

An individual or organization that provides health and dental care services.

Any person (doctor, nurse, dentist) or institution (hospital or clinic) that provides medical care.

In the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, a cryptographic service that is provided to consumers. PKCS #11 libraries, kernel cryptographic modules, and hardware accelerators are examples of providers. Providers plug in to the Solaris Cryptographic Framework, so are also called plugins. For examples of consumers, see consumer.

Any individual or organization, licensed by the state or appropriate governing body, which dispenses, supplies or performs the necessary care and treatment for an injury or sickness within the scope of its required licensing.

Refers to any party that delivers health care services. For example, can be used to describe doctors, hospitals, or suppliers.

A doctor, hospital, pharmacist or other health care professional or facility.

See Information Service.

The entity that provides services to the insured.

A person or facility, such as a doctor or hospital, that provides health care services.

General title for MD, D.O., NP, or P.A.. A provider of service. Most M.D.s and DOS don't like to be referred to as providers. Other providers are mental health professionals, chiropractic, etc.

A company or group that provides Internet service.

Those who provide health care services, such as hospitals, physicians, chiropractors, nurse practitioners and others.

The supplier of health care services. This could be a physician, a hospital, a physical therapist, etc.

A health professional who provides health care services: physician, hospital, nurse practitioner, physical therapist, etc.

Person or facility rendering medical services (i.e., hospital, physician, pharmacy, etc).

Any person (doctor or nurse) or institution (hospital, clinic, or laboratory) that provides medical care.

The individual nurse provider, home health agency, or respite care facility that is responsible for providing services as described in the physician-approved Plan of Care and within the limitations of the signed contract.

A physician, hospital, skilled nursing facility, intensive care facility or health care professional or other entity providing health care services.

Someone who provides medical services or supplies, such as a physician, hospital, x-ray company, home health agency, or pharmacy.

An application, library, or kernel module that provides services to consumers.

an eligible organization credentialed by ANCC after having submitted to an in-depth analysis to determine its capacity to provide quality continuing education over an extended period of time

The organization responsible for the design and/or delivery of an education or training event.

Any organisation providing education and training.

See Vocational education and training provider.

a group or entity that is approved by a state(s) to offer research-based tutoring or other academic support to students who are eligible for supplemental educational services.  Supplemental educational services providers can be any of the following: For-profit companies. Nonprofit groups. Local community programs. Colleges and universities. National organizations. Faith-based groups. Private and charter schools. Public schools and districts that have not been identified as in need of improvement.  Many providers will offer hands-on tutoring by trained instructors.  Others may offer Internet-based instruction that students can access through a computer at home, in a school, or at a community center.  Regardless of the identity of a provider, the instruction and content must be secular, neutral, and non-ideological.  Districts may use Title I funds to pay supplemental educational services providers.

A university, college, school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) or Designated recommending body (DRB)

An individual, institution, organization, or agency responsible for the development, implementation, evaluation, financing, record keeping, and quality of continuing education activities.

In education: An individual or organisation supplying education, training and/or assessment services, including schools, colleges of education, polytechnics, private training establishments, universities and workplaces.

An education and training body (institution/organization, company, centre, collaborative partnership, or consultancy) which delivers learning programmes that culminate in specified NQF standards or qualifications and manages the assessment thereof

a higher education provider. See: Higher education providers at a glance

A provider is an interface or set of components that provides data to a consumer. As the term is used with Oracle Provider for OLE DB, a data provider is a set of COM components that transfer data from a data source to consumer, by place the data in a tabular format when called for. See consumer.

an entity that agrees to pay for the IntCollection

an entity that agrees to pay for the Unity-VanLines

an entity that agrees to pay for the We Haul Moving, Inc

an entity that is used as a container of portlets

A business entity that sells access to or use of Web services. [WSIA Glossary

(Life Settlement Buyer) An individual, other than an owner, who enters into or effectuates a sales contract with an owner, the subject of which is a life settlement. A provider does not include: any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union or other licensed institution which takes an assignment of a life insurance policy or certificate issued pursuant to a group life insurance policy as collateral for a loan; any person who enters into no more than one agreement in a calendar year for the transfer of a life insurance policy, for compensation or anything of value less than the expected death benefit payable under the policy; a purchaser; or any authorized or eligible insurer that provides stop loss coverage to a provider; a financial entity; a special purpose entity; a related provider trust; a broker

The company or lender from which you are obtaining a credit card.

the State's Retirement Investors' Club has two types of investment providers: Active provider investment company that is able to open new accounts for state employees.  The 2006 active providers are: AIG VALIC, Hartford Life, ING Financial Advisers, and Nationwide. See Investment Provider Comparison chart for basic information. Inactive provider investment company that cannot open new accounts for state employees. These providers will no longer be able to receive employee contributions after June 30, 2006.

A financial company, in the case of unit trusts and OEICs a fund management company, which provides financial products to members of the public.

A community-based agency or program funded: by the Developmental Disabilities Administration to serve individuals with developmental disabilities; or by the Mental Hygiene Administration to serve individuals with mental disorders.

An organization that is a member of MnVU and offers courses and learning opportunities in MnVU.

Provider is the term used for the person or organisation that provides the pension scheme. In an occupational pension scheme the employer is the provider; in a personal or stakeholder pension scheme the provider is the insurance company.

The company or institutions that enable Internet access, e.g. T-Online, AOL or universities. Without a provider, access to the Internet is not possible.

Someone who sells-or gives away, in some cases-access to the Internet.

A general reference to an Internet access provider, a company that has its own dedicated access to the Internet and can therefore sell dial-up IP accounts to Internet users.

In online terms commonly refers to the business or individual who you use to dial-up and access the Internet.

See Internet provider.

See content provider.