kick payment

A payment made to Medicaid Managed Care Organizations) in the United States in the…A payment made to Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) Organizations (including health maintenance organizations (HMOs)) in the United States in the event of a live birth on the part of one of their members. Meant to compensate for the high variability of costs incurred in covering people who have become pregnant and/or given birth, which might create large losses for an MMC in a given year in which an unusually high number of plan members have had children or otherwise required intensive obstetric care.