The amount you pay for covered health care services before your insurance plan starts to pay. With a $2,000 deductible, for example, you pay the first $2,000 of covered services yourself. After you pay your deductible, you usually pay only a copayment or coinsurance for covered services. Your insurance company pays the rest. Many plans pay for certain services, like a checkup or disease management programs, before you've met your deductible. Check your plan details.
What are MCTs? Before we can begin our comparison of MCT oil and coconut oil, the first thing we have to do is define âMCT.â MCTs stands for medium chain triglycerides. Another term for âtriglyceridesâ is fatty acids. So another way of referring to MCTs is MCFA (medium chain fatty acids). âMediumâ references the chain length of the fatty acids.
Mixed connective tissue disease. In medicine, mixed connective tissue disease (also known as Sharp's syndrome), commonly abbreviated as MCTD, is an autoimmune disease in which the body's defense system attacks itself. It was characterized in 1972, and the term was introduced by Leroy in 1980.