Health care facility whose primary purpose is to provide immediate, short-term medical care for minor, but urgent, medical conditions.

Medical care a patient receives for a sudden illness or injury that needs care right away but is not life threatening. The patient’s primary care doctor generally provides urgently needed care if the patient is in a Medicare health plan other than the Original Medicare Plan. If the patient is out of the plan’s service area for a short time and cannot wait until he or she returns home, then the health plan must pay for urgently needed care.

Branch of medicine concerned with the study of the anatomy, physiology, disorders, and medical or surgical treatment of the genitourinary tract in men and women and of the male genital tract.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), means the sharing, employment, application, utilization, examination, or analysis of individually identifiable health information within an entity that maintains such information.

Cross-reference phrase used in ICD-9-CM, Volume 1, Tabular List, that follows a main term description indicating that an additional code should be used if the information is available to provide a more complete picture of the diagnosis.

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), disclosure is when a patient’s medical information is released to an individual or entity outside of the medical practice’s organization and use is when information is shared within the medical office to facilitate patient treatment.