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US

HCPCS Level II modifier that may be used with CPT or HCPCS Level II codes indicating six or more patients served.

Use

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.

Use additional code

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.

Use and disclosure

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.

Use and Occupancy Insurance

A term that was once used to refer to the coverage later known as Business Interruption Insurance and is now called Business Income Coverage or Loss of Profit or Loss of Income coverage. It this sense it is obsolete. It is however sometimes used to refer to such loss of earning in Boiler and Machinery Insurance. It is also used in some contracts which promise to pay on a valued basis, or fixed amount, for each day the insured is deprived of the use or occupancy of described property because of damage caused by a peril insured against.

Use of motor vehicles

‘Use’ is not synonymous with ‘drive’. ‘Use’ implies an element of control, management or operation. An employee driving his employer’s vehicle is using it but so too is the employer for whose benefit the journey is undertaken. Both parties must therefore be covered for the purpose of compulsory insurance under the Road Traffic Act 1988.

usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR)

Method used by insurance companies and managed care plans to establish their fee schedules in which three fees are considered in calculating payment: (1) The usual fee is the fee typically submitted by the physician, (2) the customary fee falls within the range of usual fees charged by providers of similar training in a geographical area, and (3) the reasonable fee meets the aforementioned criteria or is considered justifiable because of special circumstances.

Usurped power

This is: ‘(a) invasion by foreign enemies to give laws and usurp the government, or (b) internal armed force in rebellion assuming the power of government by making laws and punishing for not obeying those laws. Usurped power involves organised tumult or open warfare, and must be something more than action by a mere unorganised rabble; it implies a more or less organised body with more or less authoritative leaders’. (F.H. Jones).