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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Отрасли: Government
Number of terms: 15199
Number of blossaries: 0
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The federal agency that runs the Medicare program. In addition, CMS works with the States to run the Medicaid program. CMS works to make sure that the beneficiaries in these programs are able to get high quality health care.
These are standards that States set for plan structure, operations, and the internal quality improvement/assurance system that each MCO/PHP must have in order to participate in the Medicaid program.
Industry:Insurance
The Health Care Provider Information Work Group (WG15) of the Health Care Task Group (TG2) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group maintains the X12 274 Provider Information transaction.
Industry:Insurance
The surgical procedure that involves removing a functional organ from either a deceased or living donor and implanting it in a patient needing a functional organ to replace their nonfunctional organ.
Industry:Insurance
Dialysis performed with little or no professional assistance (except in emergency situations) by an ESRD patient who has completed an appropriate course of training, in a dialysis facility or at home.
Industry:Insurance
Run by the Department of Defense, in the past CHAMPUS gave medical care to active duty members of the military, military retirees, and their eligible dependents. (This program is now called "TRICARE")
Industry:Insurance
The Health Care Enrollments Work Group (WG4) of the Health Care Task Group (TG2) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12. This group maintains the X12 834 Benefit Enrollment & Maintenance transaction.
Industry:Insurance
A legal document also known as a medical directive or advance directive. It states your wishes regarding life-support or other medical treatment in certain circumstances, usually when death is imminent.
Industry:Insurance
Subset of the HCPCS Level II medical codes identifying certain dental procedures. It replicates many of the CDT codes and will be replaced by the CDT. Descriptor: The text defining a code in a code set.
Industry:Insurance
The borrowing of assets by a trust fund (OASI, DI, HI, or SMI) from another of the trust funds when one of the funds is in danger of exhaustion. Interfund borrowing was authorized only during 1982-1987.
Industry:Insurance
An exhaustive list of possible outcomes for a variable, and the associated probability of each outcome. The sum of the probabilities of all possible outcomes from a frequency distribution is 100 percent.
Industry:Insurance