1. Act or process of translating or explaining. 2. Health care provider’s review of the patient’s data expressing a verbal opinion or written documentation in a chart note or report. Interpretation of a test is a billable service.

Policy created to prevent harming of a patient or to improve the mental, emotional, or physical function of a patient. For example, a physiological process may be monitored or enhanced or a pathological process may be arrested or controlled.

Diagnostic coding term that relates to an adverse effect rather than a poisoning when drugs such as digitalis, steroid agents, and so on are involved.

Written contract in which a federal agency agrees to provide to, purchase from, or exchange with another federal agency, services (including data), supplies, or equipment. Intraagency agreements are between at least two or more agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Assets or liabilities that arise from transactions among federal entities.

Individual who works as an employee in an organization but focuses on creative and innovative products, services, and work methods. He or she often works independently or in loosely organized teams and is involved in rethinking current products, services, and organizational structures. Also referred to as internal entrepreneur .

Documented face-to-face time or floor/unit time that may be used to calculate the level of Evaluation and Management code when time is the determining factor for the encounter with a patient.