System of billing accounts at spaced intervals during the month based on breakdown of accounts by alphabet, account number, insurance type, or date of first service. This relieves the pressure of having to get all the statements or insurance claims out at one time and allows continuous cash flow throughout the month. Also called cyclical billing .

Summary of chronological financial transactions posted to patients’ financial accounts (ledgers) on a specific day. Also called a day sheet or daily log .

Maximum daily amount paid by a health insurance hospital or major medical plan for inpatient room and board charges.

Inpatient hospital fee every day that includes room and care, nursing, meals, linen, other services, and administrative costs.

In the health care setting, this is a collection of letters, numbers, dates, symbols, graphic images, and words about individuals and their medical conditions.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), combining protected health information by a business associate together with the protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity.

Digital coding system for data in a computer, such as American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronounced “asskey”) and Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC, pronounced “IB-sa-dik”).

1. Explanation of the situation when specific information is required. 2. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the data elements and code sets that encompass a transaction but are not related to the format.