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Useful Acronyms

Throughout our website and often when discussing complex reimbursement issues and regulations we use acronyms. The following is a listing of useful acronyms:

• ACA
• Affordable Care Act

• A&G
• Administrative and General

• AHSEA
• Adjusted Hourly Salary Equivalency Amount

• ARRA
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

• ASC
• Ambulatory Surgical Center

• BBA
• Balanced Budget Act

• BBRA
• Balanced Budget Reform Act

• BIPA
• Benefits Improvement and Protection Act

• CAH
• Critical Access Hospitals

• CBSA
• Core Based Statistical Areas

• CCN
• CMS Certification Number

• CFR
• Code of Federal Regulations

• CMHC
• Community Mental Health Center

• CMS
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

• CORF
• Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility

• CRNA
• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

• DEFRA
• Deficit Reduction Act of 1984

• DPP
• Disproportionate Patient Percentage

• DRA
• Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

• DRG
• Diagnostic Related Group

• DSH
• Disproportionate Share

• EACH
• Essential Access Community Hospital

• ECR
• Electronic Cost Report

• EHR
• Electronic Health Records

• ESRD
• End Stage Renal Disease

• FQHC
• Federally Qualified Health Center

• FR
• Federal Register

• FTE
• Full Time Equivalent

• HCERA
• Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

• HCPCS
• Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System

• HCRIS
• Healthcare Cost Report Information System

• GME
• Graduate Medical Education

• HHA
• Home Health Agency

• HIT
• Health Information Technology

• HMO
• Health Maintenance Organization

• ICF/MR
• Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded

• ICU
• Intensive Care Unit

• IME
• Indirect Medical Education

• IPF
• Inpatient Psychiatric Facility

• IPPS
• Inpatient Prospective Payment System

• IRF
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility

• LIP
• Low Income Patient

• LOS
• Length of Stay

• LTCH
• Long Term Care Hospital

• MA
• Medicare Advantage (previously known as M+C)

• M+C
• Medicare + Choice (also known as Medicare Part C, Medicare Advantage and Medicare HMO)

• MDH
• Medicare Dependent Hospital

• MIPPA
• Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

• MMA
• Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003

• MMEA
• Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010

• MS-DRG
• Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group

• MSP
• Medicare Secondary Payer

• NF
• Nursing Facility

• NPI
• National Provider Identifier

• NPR
• Notice of Program Reimbursement

• OPPS
• Outpatient Prospective Payment System

• ORF
• Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility

• PCRE
• Primary Care Residency Expansion Program

• PBP
• Provider-Based Physician

• PPS
• Prospective Payment System

• PRM
• Provider Reimbursement Manual

• PS&R
• Provider Statistical and Reimbursement Report (or System)

• PT
• Physical Therapy

• PTO
• Paid Time Off

• RCE
• Reasonable Compensation Equivalent

• RHC
• Rural Health Clinic

• RPCH
• Rural Primary Care Hospitals

• RT
• Respiratory Therapy

• RUG
• Resource Utilization Group

• SCH
• Sole Community Hospitals

• SCHIP
• State Children's Health Insurance Program

• SNF
• Skilled Nursing Facility

• SSI
• Supplemental Security Income

• TEFRA
• Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982

• TOPPS
• Transitional Corridor Payment for Outpatient Prospective Payment System

• UPIN
• Unique Physician Identification Number