1. Any continuous 12-month period used by insurance companies and the government as an accounting period. 2. In the Medicare and TRICARE programs, the federal government’s fiscal year is from October 1 to September 30.

In the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM ), a letter and two digits followed by a period or decimal point and up to three numbers that give more information on the description of a condition.

Use of internal and/or external hardware (e.g., pins, rods, plates, wires) to keep a bone in place; also referred to as instrumentation .

Settlement option in a life insurance policy wherein the insurance company uses policy proceeds plus interest to pay the beneficiary either annually or semiannually until the proceeds plus interest are all gone. Also called fixed payment option .

Net worth of hospital or other health facilities and other resources.

Expenses that do not change with fluctuations in number of members or use of medical services in a managed care plan.
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UK:REFERENCES: See: STANDING CHARGES.

Settlement option in a life insurance policy wherein the insurance company uses policy proceeds plus interest to pay the beneficiary either annually or semiannually for a specific period of time.

In workers’ compensation cases, this phrase is sometimes used to refer to a recurrence of an industrial injury or illness and refers specifically to the symptoms that are considered to be related to the natural course of the previous injury or illness and not to a new injury from current employment.