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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Industry: 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.
A health plan that provides health coverage to employees, former employees, and their families, and is supported by an employer or employee organization.
Industry:Insurance
An index of known values that likely approximates an index for which values are unavailable. The proxy is used as a "stand-in" for the unavailable index.
Industry:Insurance
Consists of a linkage of the clinical data collected by the SEER registries with claims for health services collected by Medicare for its beneficiaries.
Industry:Insurance
The percentage of the Medicare payment rate or a hospital's billed charge that you have to pay after you pay the deductible for Medicare Part B services.
Industry:Insurance
The plan or Primary Care Case Manager is paid for providing services to enrollees through a combination of capitation and fee for service reimbursements.
Industry:Insurance
The Property & Casualty Work Group (WG1) of the Business Transaction Coordination and Modeling Task Group (TG3) of the Insurance Subcommittee (N) of X12.
Industry:Insurance
The SEER Program of the National Cancer Institute is the most authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States.
Industry:Insurance
Under HIPAA this is a list of any entities that have received personally identifiable health care information for uses unrelated to treatment and payment.
Industry:Insurance
A facility maintained by either State or local health departments that provides ambulatory primary medical care under the general direction of a physician.
Industry:Insurance
An organization that coordinates the development and adoption of numerous international standards. "ISO" is not an acronym, but the Greek word for "equal".
Industry:Insurance