A

    Academic Year
    Access
    Accreditation
    Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
    Acute Care Hospital
    Adjusted Average Per Capita Cost (AAPCC)
    Admission
    Admitting Privileges
    Advance Directive
    Advanced Practice Nurse (APN)
    Adverse Action
    Adverse Drug Event
    Adverse Event
    Affiliated Staff
    Aftercare
    All-Payer System
    Allied Health Professional (AHP) or Mid-Level Provider (MLP)
    Allopathic Medicine
    Allowable Costs
    Alternative Delivery
    Alternative Medicine
    Ambulatory Care
    Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)
    Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
    Ancillary Care Services
    Anti-Kickback Statute
    Antitrust
    Articles of Partnership
    Average Length of Stay (ALOS)

B

    Basic Benefits
    Benchmark
    Beneficiary
    Board Certified
    Board Eligible or Board Admissible or Board Prepared
    Board Qualified
    Bundled Payments
    Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists
    Buy-in

C

    Capitation
    Care Management Protocols (CMPs)
    Carve-Out Service
    Case Management
    Case Manager
    Case Mix Adjustment
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
    Certificate of Need (CON)
    CFR
    Charity Care
    Chief Resident
    Chronic Illness
    Claims-Made Insurance Policy
    Clinical or Critical Pathway
    Co-payment
    Collection Rates
    Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
    Conditions of Participation (COP)
    Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA)
    Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
    Continuing Medical Education (CME)
    Continuum of Care
    Controlled Dangerous Substance or Controlled Substance
    Core Benefit Plan
    Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
    Cost Shifting
    Covered Lives
    Covered Services
    Credentialing
    Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
    Curriculum Vitae

D

    Deductible
    Delivery System
    Denovo
    Depreciation
    Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)
    Discharge Planning
    Distribution Time Frames
    Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
    Doctor of Medicine (MD)
    Doctor of Osteopathy (DO)
    Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
    Drug Formulary
    Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
    Durable Power of Attorney

E

    E-health
    Educational Commission of Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
    Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
    Emergency Department (ED)
    Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
    Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
    Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
    Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
    Employer Mandate
    Employment Agreement
    Enrollee
    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    Episodic Payment Group (EPG)
    Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
    Experience Rating
    Extended Care Facility

F

    Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
    Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
    Federation Licensing Exam (FLEX)
    Fee-for-Service (FFS)
    Fellow
    Fellowship
    Fellowship
    Fifth Pathway
    Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    For-Profit Health Organization
    Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
    Formulary
    Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)
    Functional Related Group (FRG)

G

    Generic Drug
    Government Accountability Office (GAO)
    Graduate Medical Education (GME)
    Gross Charges
    Group Insurance
    Group Model HMO
    Group Practice

H

    Hard Assets
    Health Information Exchange
    Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
    Health Plan
    Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA)
    Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
    Healthcare System or Multi-Hospital System
    Hill-Burton Act
    Historical Collections
    HITECH Act
    Home Health Agency (HHA)
    Hospice
    Hospital-attached Long-Term Care Unit (HLTCU)
    House Physician
    Internship

I

    Indemnity Insurance
    Independent Contractor
    Independent Practice Association (IPA)
    Indigent Medical Care
    Inpatient
    Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)
    Integrated Delivery Network or System
    Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
    Intermediate Care Facility
    International Medical Graduate

J

    Joinder Agreement
    Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
    Joint Operating Agreement (JOA)
    Joint Venture

K

    L

      Length of Stay (LOS)
      Level of Care or Level of Service
      Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
      Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
      Licensure
      Living Will
      Locum Tenens Physician
      Long-Term Care (LTC)

    M

      Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI)
      Malpractice
      Malpractice Insurance
      Managed Care
      Managed Care Organization (MCO)
      Management Service Organization (MSO)
      Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
      Master of Social Work (MSW)
      MCP
      Medicaid
      Medical Director
      Medical Savings Account (MSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
      Medical Staff
      Medical Staff Bylaws
      Medically Necessary
      Medically Underserved Area (MUA) and Medically Underserved Population (MUP)
      Medicare Improvement for Patients and Provider Act
      Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
      Medigap
      MGMA
      Morbidity
      Morbidity Rate
      Mortality
      Most Favored Nation (MFN)

    N

      National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
      National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
      National Institutes of Health (NIH)
      National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)
      National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
      Net Fees
      Non-profit Health Organization
      Nurse Practitioner

    O

      Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
      OIG
      Operating Expenses
      Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)
      Osteopathic Medicine
      Outcome Measures
      Outlier
      Outpatient

    P

      Palliative Care
      Participating Provider
      Patient Advocate
      Patient Flow Data
      Payer
      Payor Mix
      Peer Review
      Peer Review Organization or Professional Review Organization (PRO)
      Per Diem
      Performance Improvement
      Pharmacogenomics
      Physician Assistant (PA)
      Physician Management Company (PMC)
      Physician-Hospital Organization (PHO)
      Point of Service (POS)
      Portable Benefits
      Post Graduate Year (PGY)
      Pre-Existing Condition
      Preauthorization
      Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
      Preventive Care
      Primary Care
      Primary Diagnosis
      Primary Diagnosis
      Principal Procedure
      Privilege
      PRN
      Procedural Code
      Productivity Formulas
      Professional Corporation (PC)
      Program Director
      Prospective Payment System (PPS)
      Prospective Review
      Provider
      Provider Service Organization (PSO)
      Provider Sponsored Network (PSN)
      Public Health Service

    Q

      Quality Assessment (QA)
      Quality Assurance (QA) or Quality Management (QM)
      Quality Improvement
      Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)

    R

      Reasonable and Customary Charges
      Referral Authorization
      Referral Physician
      Referring Physician
      Renal Physicians Association (RPA)
      Residency
      Residency Review Committee (RRC)
      Resident
      Resource Utilization Group (RUG)
      Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS)
      Restrictive Covenant
      Retrospective Review
      Risk Management
      Rural Health Clinic (RHC)
      Rural Referral Center

    S

      Safe harbor
      Salary Guarantee
      Service Area
      Single-Specialty Hospital (SSH)
      Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
      Sole Community Provider
      Stark Laws
      State Board of Medical Examiners
      Sub-acute Care
      Subscriber
      Swing Beds

    T

      Tail Insurance or Tail Coverage
      Teaching Hospital
      Telemedicine or Telehealth
      Tertiary Care
      Third Party Payors
      Total Quality Management (TQM)
      Training License
      Trauma Center
      Turnover Rate

    U

      Uncompensated Care
      Unique Provider Identification Number (UPIN)
      United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
      Utilization
      Utilization Management (UM)
      Utilization Review (UR)

    V

      Veterans Administration (VA)
      Visa

    W

      X

        Y

          Z