Allowed charge. A discounted fee that insurers negotiate with doctors, hospitals and other health care providers in their network. Negotiating charges reduce costs for you and the insurance company. It's a key reason why insurers create incentives to use in-network providers and why you pay more when you donât.
Background. Schwartz-Jampel syndrome (SJS) is a term now applied to 2 different inherited, autosomal recessive conditions, sometimes termed SJS type I and SJS type II. Both are very rare. SJS type I has 2 recognized subtypes, IA and IB, which are similar, except that type IB manifests earlier and with greater severity.
April F Eichler, MD, MPH. Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS), also called recurrent hypersomnia, is a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of severe hypersomnia associated with cognitive and behavioral disturbances such as confusion, derealization, apathy, compulsive eating, and hypersexuality.