Medicare & Medicaid

Medicare & Medicaid

Medical insurance programs administered by the U.S. federal government that provide health care coverage for the elderly (people over 65) and certain people and families with low incomes and resources.

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Hospice care

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

A special way of caring for people who are terminally ill, and for their family. This care includes physical care and counseling. Hospice care is covered under Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance).

Transient patients

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

Patients who receive treatments on an episodic basis and are not part of a facilities regular caseload (i.e. patients who have not been permanently transferred to a facility for ongoing treatments).

Tax rate

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

The percentage of taxable earnings, up to the maximum tax base, that is paid for the HI tax. Currently, the percentages are 1.45 for employees and employers, each. The self-employed pay 2.9 percent.

Centres For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

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 programmes are able to ...

American Medical Association

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

A professional organisation for physicians. The AMA is the secretariat of the NUCC, which has a formal consultative role under HIPAA. The AMA also maintains the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ...

National standard format

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

Generically, this applies to any nationally standardised data format, but it is often used in a more limited way to designate the Professional EMC NSF, a 320-byte flat file record format used to ...

Rights of individuals

Insurance; Medicare & Medicaid

The rights include: * Receive notice of information practices; * See and copy own records; * Request corrections; Obtain accounting of disclosures; * Request restrictions and confidential ...