"But original Medicare may cover a specific treatment you need, which isn't provided by the H.M.O.
"We don't have a definitive diagnostic test, we don't have a vaccine and we don't have a specific treatment.
That's because insurers often pay based on usual and customary charges for a specific treatment in your geographical area.
For the first time, doctors had a specific treatment that had been shown to prevent fractures in people with osteoporosis.
If you followed the Schiavo case and have a strong opinion about a specific treatment — continued life-support or removal of all artificial means of living — then you need to express that in a living will.
Lang and colleagues are designing trials that will still come up with the answers – for instance by comparing survival rates now at a specific treatment centre with survival rates once all patients are given a certain drug.
Two court cases, one from Texas and the other from Illinois, raise the question of whether states may require H.M.O.'s to provide an independent review after they rule that a specific treatment is not medically necessary.
Further studies are required to define a specific treatment protocol.
Most migraine sufferers used to treat their attacks, mainly with a recommended or a specific treatment.
Currently, there is neither a specific treatment nor vaccine available for chikungunya fever.
In addition, the discontinuities require a specific treatment during the optimization process.
