Date on which the insurer issued the contract.
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Date of policy
Month, day, and year that usually appears on the front page of an insurance policy as to when the policy became effective.
Date of receipt
Month, day, and year on the return voucher of “return receipt requested” certified or registered U.S. post office mail, unless otherwise defined.
date of service (DOS)
1. Month, day, and year that a professional service is rendered or a supply item is given to a patient by a provider. This date is entered on the patient’s encounter form and charted in the patient’s medical record along with documentation by the provider detailing the services and/or supplies provided, chief complaint, examination, and when the patient should return for an appointment. 2. When an insurance claim is manually submitted, the date of service is inserted in Block 24A of the CMS-1500 insurance claim form. This indicates the date on which health care services were provided to the insured. More than one date of service may be listed on a claim. Also called service date .
Date of service (Health Insurance)
The date the insured was seen by a health care practitioner or given medical treatment.
Date of submission
See: date of filing .
Dating back
See: Backdating.
Datum Level
In credit insurance, a franchise.
Datum line cover
The ‘line’ is the level of indebtedness that must be breached before a credit insurer is liable for the risk relating to a specific debtor.
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Credit insurance which allows the insured to propose a specific debtor for inclusion in the cover only after his indebtedness has attained a certain level, called the datum line.
DAW
Acronym that means dispense as written and relates to a prescription note from a physician to a pharmacist. It infers that the brand name of the drug be given instead of a generic drug.