Vacant, accessible bed that is obtainable to a patient.

Hospital bed assigned as of midnight to a patient who is to be moved between medical facilities and who stops to stay over while en route to his or her destination before reaching the next facility.

Hospital bed ready for the medical care of a patient that includes the space, equipment, and staff. This excludes transient patient beds, bassinets, incubators, labor beds, and recovery beds.

Number of hospital beds that are licensed and certified and capable of operating. This includes space, equipment, medical material, and ancillary and support services, but staff may not be available. Licensed beds equal the total of operating beds and set-up beds.

Account balance at the beginning of a period that is an amount owed on a credit transaction. It is also known as account balance carried forward , running balance , or outstanding or unpaid balance .

Examination and treatment of mental health, chemical dependency, forensic, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and cognitive rehabilitation services provided in acute, long-term, and ambulatory care settings. Also called behavioral health care .

Sustained superior performance by a medical care provider, which can be used as a reference to raise the mainstream of care for Medicare beneficiaries. The relative definition of superior will vary from situation to situation. In many instances, an appropriate benchmark would be a provider that appears in the top 10% of all providers for more than a year. Factors that are looked at to determine what to benchmark are physician productivity, practice efficiency, revenue generation, coding performance, and collections. A practice management system can be used to generate reports on the most important factors at regular intervals.
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A benchmark is a claim reporting or payment pattern derived from external sources.