Health / Health Insurance / Independent Practice Association (IPA): An organization comprised of individual physicians or physicians in small group practices that contracts with MCOs on behalf of its member physicians to provide healthcare services.
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Association Noun Synonyms: society, organization, confederation, confederacy, federation, league, union, alliance, guild, coalition, group, syndicate, combine, consortium, cooperative
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Independent Noun Synonyms: free, self-governing, autonomous, sovereign
Independent Adjective Synonyms: self-reliant, self-sufficient, self-assured, (self-)confident, bold, individualistic, competent
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Practice Noun Synonyms: pursuit, exercise, work, profession, career, vocation, conduct, business, office
Practice Adverb Synonyms: custom, wont, habit, routine, convention, tradition, rule, procedure,age, mode, style, way, modus operandi, technique or technic, praxis, MO (= 'modus operandi')
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Business / Real Estate / National Association Of Independent Fee Appraisers (NAIFA): A professional association of appraisers with more than 2,000 members nationally. NAIFA offers the specialty designations IFA (member), IFAS (senior member) and IFAC (appraiser-counselor). MORE
Entertainment / Football / National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA): Another governing body of college sports, including college football, whose member schools tend to be smaller than those of the NCAA MORE
Technology / Television (TV) / National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB): A non-profit organization supported by TV and radio broadcasters whose purpose is to demonstrate to legislative bodies and other interested parties that broadcasters can maintain adequate standards wi MORE
Business / Finance / Mutual Association: A savings and loan association organized as a cooperative. Members purchase shares, vote on association affairs, and receive income in the form of dividends. MORE
Business / Finance / Japanese Association Of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (Jasdaq): Japanese equivalent of Nasdaq. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Loosening Of Associations: A disturbance of thinking shown by speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another that is unrelated or minimally related to the first. Statements that lack a meaningful relationship may be ju MORE