Health care facility for handling surgical procedures that do not need overnight hospital care. Also called ambulatory care facility, ambulatory surgical center, clinic, day surgery , outpatient facility, primary care center , or urgent care center .

1. In the Medicaid program, the principle that a state ensures that Medicaid beneficiaries are free to obtain medical care from any provider. 2. In private health plans, refers to ability of members or subscribers to go to whomever they want for medical services without being referred.

Federal law that any person has a right, enforceable in court, of access of federal agency records, except to the extent that such records, or portions thereof, are protected from disclosure by one of nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. Requests must be submitted in writing. FOIA applies only to records of the executive branch of the federal government, not to those of Congress or the federal courts, and does not apply to state governments, local governments, or private groups.

To work for several clients as an independent, self-employed individual.

Exhaustive list of possible outcomes for a variable, and the associated probability of each outcome. The sum of the probabilities of all possible outcomes from a frequency distribution is 100%.

Dollar amount for one base unit that is obtained when converting a provider’s fee schedule that is not based on the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) to one that is based on it, using current fees and the number of times the service is provided (frequency). By using a FACF, it is possible to develop an RBRVS fee schedule that produces the same amount of income that was generated under the non-RBRVS fee schedule.

In a workers’ compensation case, pain approximately 75% of the time.