1. Verify authorship of a patient’s medical record by signature, initials, or rubber stamp that data are accurate, complete, and final. 2. Verify or identify access privileges of a user or user device to an information system. 3. Process to certify that a document is genuine.

Method of type of approval that requires a determination that the service is likely to have a diagnostic or therapeutic benefit for patients for whom it is intended.

Written medical or scientific conclusions demonstrating the medical effectiveness of a service produced by the following: controlled clinical trials, published in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals; controlled clinical trials completed and accepted for publication in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals; assessments initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); evaluations or studies initiated by Medicare contractors; case studies published in peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals that present treatment protocols.

1. Under the HIPAA privacy rule, an individual’s formal, written permission to use or disclose his or her personally identifiable health information for purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations. 2. Verbal or written agreement that a third-party payer will pay for professional services rendered. 3. Requirement in some health insurance plans to obtain permission for a service or procedure before it is done and to see whether the insurance program agrees it is medically necessary. Also called preauthorization. See also precertification. 4. Legal document giving an individual the right to act.
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The amount of Insurance an underwriter says he will accept on risk of a given class as on specific property, given for the guidance of Agents and in response to requests from producers.