Industry Terms
- A
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- ADT
- Admission, Discharge or Transfer
- AE
- Account Executive
- APC
- Ambulatory Payment Classifications
- B
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- BPO
- Business Process Outsourcing
- C
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- CCS
- Certified Coding Specialist
- CDM
- Clinical Data Management
- CMS
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- COLD feed
- Computer Output to Laser Disk
- CSM
- Customer Service Manager
- D
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- DNFB
- Discharged Not Final Billed
- DOJ
- Department of Justice
- DRG
- Diagnosis Related Groups
- E
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- EBITDA
- Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization
- EDI
- Electronic Data Interchange
- EHR
- Electronic Health Record
- EMR
- Electronic Medical Records
- ERP
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- G
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- GAAP
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- H
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- H&P
- History & Physical
- HH
- Home Health
- HIPAA
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
- HIS
- Hospital Information System
- HMSI
- Hunter Medical Systems, Inc.
- I
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- ICD-10
- International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
- ICD-9
- International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition/Revision
- IP
- Internet Protocol
- K
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- KFI’s
- Key Financial Indicators
- KPI’s
- Key Performance Indicators
- M
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- MGC
- Medgrup Corporation
- MPLS
- Multiprotocol Label Switching
- N
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- NOC
- National Operations Center
- NTG
- Network Technology Group
- O
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- OIG
- Office of the Inspector General
- OP
- Out Patient
- P
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- PHI
- Protected Health Information
- R
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- RHC
- Rural Health Clinic
- RHIA
- Registered Health Information Administrator
- RHIT
- Registered Health Information Technician
- ROI
- Release of Information
- S
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- SDS
- Same Day Surgery
- SLA
- Service level agreement
- T
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- T1
- T-carrier 1
- U
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- UPS
- Uninterrupted Power Supply
- V
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- VNA
- Visiting Nurse Association
- VoIP
- Voice over Internet Protocol
- VPN
- Virtual Private Network
