Wallet Biopsy

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Wallet Biopsy

A cynical term used in fee-for-service health care systems for the assessment—e.g., examination (’biopsy’)—of a patient’s wallet for insurance coverage information to determine whether he can pay before admitting him to a hospital or performing expensive procedures

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No references found			That has led to certain decisions, such as a wallet biopsy, that could affect [a patient's] access to care. LINKING CREDIT SCORES TO HOSPITAL CARE by Robert Berner and Chad Terhune / BusinessWeek com, an Internet database of names listed in US telephone directories June 2006 A Topical Dictionary of Slang Republican pizza = pizza with Green peppers, Onions and Pepperoni BANANA = build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything Assmosis = kissing up to the boss instead of working hard Wallet biopsy = finding out how much care a paying patient can afford Red-headed Eskimo = legislation tailored to benefit a tiny minority Slang (Walker & Company, 2006; $24. AERST transposals by Grant, Jeff / Word Ways			walking heel Walking Man Sign Walking Pneumonia walking program walking reflex walking rounds Walking Through Phenomenon walking typhoid Walking Wounded walking-through phenomenon walkway wall wall germander Wall of Silence Wall Sign wall stress wall-eyed Wallabia Wallaby wallaby tick Wallace wallaroo walled abscess Wallenberg's syndrome wallerian degeneration Wallet Biopsy Wallet Neuropathy Walletectomy walleye walleyed walling-off reaction wallow Walnut Walnut Brain Walpole's solution walrus Walt Disney Dwarfism Walter Reed Staging System Walthard's cell rest Walton-Liston forceps waltzed flap Wamberg's knife wamps wander Wanderer wanderers wandering wandering abscess wandering atrial pacemaker wandering cell Wandering Eye			Wallenstadt, Lake of Wallenstein Wallenstein Doctrine Wallenstein, Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, duke von Friedland Wallenstein, Count Waller Waller Waller County Waller County Economic Development Partnership Waller County, Texas Waller County, TX Waller Hart, Learning Architects Waller Junior High School Waller, Edmund Waller, Fats Waller, Fats Waller, Max Waller, Sir William Waller, Thomas Waller, Thomas Wright wallerian degeneration wallerian degeneration wallerian degeneration wallerian degeneration Wallern Wallerstein, Immanuel wallet wallet Wallet Biopsy Wallet Neuropathy Walletectomy Walleteer Wallets Walley engine walleye walleye walleye walleye Walleye (zoology) Walleye (zoology) Walleye (zoology) Walleye chop Walleye chop Walleye chop Walleye Dermal Sarcoma Virus Walleye Epidermal Hyperplasia Walleye Epidermal Hyperplasia Virus Walleye pike Walleye pike Walleye pike Walleye Pollock Walleye Pollock walleyed walleyed walleyed pike walleyed pike walleyed pike walleyed pollack walleyes

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