A guide to choosing care
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- GLP-1
- A gut hormone, or body message, involved in hunger and blood-sugar control.
- Telehealth
- Health care when you and the clinician are apart, for example using video or messages.
- Clinician
- A health professional responsible for reviewing your health and providing treatment.
- Prescriber
- A health professional authorised to order prescription medicine.
- Compounding
- Making a medicine for a particular need instead of supplying a standard manufactured product.
- Prior authorization
- Approval that a drug plan asks for before it pays.
- Formulary
- A drug plan’s list of covered medicines.
- List price
- The maker’s published price for a package of medicine. Your cash offer or insurance bill may have a different price.
- Self-pay
- Paying for care or medicine outside insurance.
- Copay
- The patient’s share of a bill that is covered.
- Boxed warning
- The strongest type of warning on an FDA medicine label. The FDA is the United States drug agency.
- Type 2 diabetes
- An illness affecting blood sugar.
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