In workers’ compensation cases, employee’s ability to earn wages including tips, gratuities, and nonmonetary earnings, expressed as a weekly earnings amount. AWW is established by using earnings from up to the 12 months (52 weeks) prior to the injury and divided by the actual number of weeks used.

1. Pharmaceutical price based on common data and written in a pharmacy provider contract. 2. Average cost for a medicine charged to pharmacy providers by a pharmaceutical wholesaler supplier.

Situation in which the patient’s diagnosis for which he or she was hospitalized could have been avoided if ambulatory care was given in an immediate and efficient manner.

Ripping or tearing away of a part.

1. See average wholesale price (AWP). 2. See any willing provider (AWP) laws.

1. See business associate (BA) . 2. HCPCS Level II modifier that may be used with CPT or HCPCS Level II codes indicating item(s) used with parenteral enteral nutrition (PEN) services.

Period from the end of World War II through the mid-1960s marked by unusually high birth rates.