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.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), these are all the data elements and code sets inherent to a transaction, and not related to the format of the transaction.

Board or committee in the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for overseeing implementation of the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).