Subscriber

A subscriber is the person who is holds the insurance under which medical services provided to the patient will be billed.  The subscriber and the patient may be one and the same person or they may have some relationship such as spouse, parent and child, or something else altogether.  The subscriber and the account may be one and the same person or they may have a some relationship such as spouse, parent and child, or no relationship at all.  A subscriber exists at the practice-level.