health care provider

1. 1.

   a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

   Synonymshealth professionalprimary care providerPCPcaregiver

   Broaderprofessional

   Narrowerbonesetterelectrologistmedical assistantmedical practitionernursepharmacist

   Part ofhealth profession

Questions about health care provider

What does health care provider mean?

health care provider means "a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability".

What is another word for health care provider?

Close synonyms include health professional, primary care provider, PCP, caregiver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is health care provider a common word?

health care provider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.