Breach means breaking or violation of a law or agreement. In the context of the medical office, it means the unauthorized release of confidential information about the patient to a third party.

Length of time between the date an employee leaves a company and the date the employee resumes work for that company. For pension and employee benefit plans, a plan participant cannot be deprived of benefits that accumulate before a break in service unless the break is longer than (1) five years or (2) the amount of time that the participant has been employed when the break commences, whichever is greater.

Level of membership in a managed care plan at which the situation of total revenues and total expenses are equal and produce neither a net gain nor loss from operations.