Federal legislation that allows employers to establish a trust that may be used to provide accident and illness benefits to employees who are members.

Group whole life insurance plan in which the employer’s contributions help with income tax exemptions. This federal statute lists specifications that a plan must meet.

Instructions that precede the major divisions or parts of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code book providing information for accurate coding.

Debt (an amount owed) in which a debtor pledges certain property (collateral), in a written security agreement, to the repayment of the debt.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), individual who protects the computer and networking systems within the medical practice or hospital facility and implements protocols such as password assignment, backup procedures, firewalls, virus protection, and contingency planning for emergencies.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), regulations related to the security of electronic protected health information (ePHI) that, along with regulations related to electronic transactions and code sets, privacy, and enforcement, compose the Administrative Simplification provisions. Also called security regulations .

Cross-reference word used in ICD-9-CM that is a mandatory instruction following a main term in the index, indicating that another term should be referenced and to look elsewhere for the correct diagnostic code.

Cross-reference phrase used in ICD-9-CM that is an instruction note found in the Alphabetic Index to Diseases. It instructs the coder to refer to a main term for the condition.