Use

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), means the sharing, employment, application, utilization, examination, or analysis of individually identifiable health information within an entity that maintains such information.

Use additional code

Cross-reference phrase used in ICD-9-CM, Volume 1, Tabular List, that follows a main term description indicating that an additional code should be used if the information is available to provide a more complete picture of the diagnosis.

Use and disclosure

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), disclosure is when a patient’s medical information is released to an individual or entity outside of the medical practice’s organization and use is when information is shared within the medical office to facilitate patient treatment.

Use and Occupancy Insurance

A term that was once used to refer to the coverage later known as Business Interruption Insurance and is now called Business Income Coverage or Loss of Profit or Loss of Income coverage. It this sense it is obsolete. It is however sometimes used to refer to such loss of earning in Boiler and Machinery Insurance. It is also used in some contracts which promise to pay on a valued basis, or fixed amount, for each day the insured is deprived of the use or occupancy of described property because of damage caused by a peril insured against.

Use and occupancy insurance (Property Insurance)

An early name for business income insurance. The coverage provided by this type of policy was essentially the same as Business Income Coverage.

Use of motor vehicles

‘Use’ is not synonymous with ‘drive’. ‘Use’ implies an element of control, management or operation. An employee driving his employer’s vehicle is using it but so too is the employer for whose benefit the journey is undertaken. Both parties must therefore be covered for the purpose of compulsory insurance under the Road Traffic Act 1988.