Health facility maintained by either state or local health departments that provides ambulatory primary medical care under the general direction of a physician. Also called local public health clinic .

Under §1864 of the Act, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has entered into agreements with agencies of state governments, typically the agency that licenses health facilities within the state health departments, to conduct surveys of Medicare participating providers and suppliers for purposes of determining compliance with Medicare requirements for participation in the Medicare program.

State agency that inspects renal dialysis facilities and makes sure that Medicare standards are met.

State-specific affiliate of the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) that developed the Uniform Bill (UB-92) insurance claim form for hospital inpatient billing and payment transactions in use from 1994. It replaced the Uniform Bill (UB-82) claim form that was also referred to as HCFA-1450 claim form . The Uniform Bill (UB-92) was replaced by the Uniform Bill (UB-04) claim form in 2008.

State office authorized by the Older Americans Act that administers the plan for service to the aged and coordinates programs for the aged with other state offices.

Deviations from the predicted future of occurrences that was based on past numerical data.

Accumulation of numbers recorded and then to analyze information (e.g., occurrences of injuries and accidents, causes of death, losses). The information is used to predict future occurrences and calculate insurance premium rates.

Insurance policy provision that excludes payment of benefits for loss that occurs when an insured is in active military service.

Indicator on an insurance claim record that describes the queue (line or file) where the claim is situated and the action that needs to be performed on the claim.