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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
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