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Quality Management (QM): An organization-wide process of measur-ing and improving the quality of the healthcare provided by an MCO.

Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Plan: A type of managed care specialty service organization that seeks to contain the costs, while promoting safer and more efficient use, of prescription drugs or pharmaceuticals. Also known as a . . . View Full Definition

Phase Inequality: Variations in the tides or tidal currents due to changes in the phase of the Moon. At the times of new and full Moon the tide-producing forces of the Moon and Sun act in conjunction, causing . . . View Full Definition

Pest Resistance Management (PRM) Plans: To protect the continued use of biopesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring companies developing transgenic crops (see genetic engineering) to submit and implement pest r . . . View Full Definition

Physician Practice Management (PPM) Company: A company, owned by a group of investors, that purchases physicians' practice assets, provides practice management services, and, in most cases, gives physicians a long-term contract to cont . . . View Full Definition

Performance Management: The process of maintaining or improving employee job performance through the use of performance assessment tools, coaching and counseling as well as providing continuous feedback.

Partners In Quality: An AMS documented quality assurance system for fresh produce packing houses. Those that incorporate the program’s rigorous quality standards and requirements (monitored by periodic unannounc . . . View Full Definition

Passive Investment Management: Buying a well diversified portfolio to represent a broad-based market index without attempting to search out mispriced securities.

Portfolio Management: Related: Investment management

Ppc Management: The process of managing PPC accounts, campaigns, ad groups, and keywords.