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.
Dr. Harold Schwartz on Lincoln and the Marfan Syndrome. Dr. Harold Schwartz is a cardiologist from Huntington Park, California who, while treating a patient in 1959, discovered a common lineage between the male patient and Abraham Lincoln.