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Medicare & Medicaid
Medical insurance programs administered by the U.S. federal government that provide health care coverage for the elderly (people over 65) and certain people and families with low incomes and resources.
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diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
A drug given to pregnant women from the early 1940s until 1971 to help with common problems during pregnancy. The drug has been linked to cancer of the cervix or vagina in women whose mother took the ...
American Medical Association
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
A professional organization for physicians. The AMA is the secretariat of the NUCC, which has a formal consultative role under HIPAA. The AMA also maintains the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ...
summarized income rate
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
The ratio of (1) the present value of the tax revenues incurred during a given period (from both payroll taxes and taxation of OASDI benefits), to (2) the present value of the taxable payroll for the ...
X12N/TG3
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
The Business Transaction Coordination and Modeling Task Group (TG3) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. TG3 maintains the X12N Business and Data Models and the HIPAA Data Dictionary. This was ...
Medicare handbook
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
The Medicare Handbook provides information on such things as how to file a claim and what type of care is covered under the Medicare program. This handbook is given to all beneficiaries when first ...
national standard format
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
Generically, this applies to any nationally standardized data format, but it is often used in a more limited way to designate the Professional EMC NSF, a 320-byte flat file record format used to ...
rights of individuals
Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid
The rights include: * Receive notice of information practices; * See and copy own records; * Request corrections; Obtain accounting of disclosures; * Request restrictions and confidential ...
