Process that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) employs to compare an accreditation organization’s standards, processes, and enforcement activities to the comparable CMS requirements, processes, and enforcement activities.

One payment that stands for several payments because it is equal to the value of the other payments.

Type of suicide in which there is doubt as to whether it was intentional or not.

Abbreviation for emergency room. See emergency department (ED) .

Science and technology that seeks to fit the anatomical and physical needs of the worker to the workplace.

Type of insurance coverage for liability arising from a negligent act or mistake committed by an individual when doing professional work that may harm a client. It is usually purchased by those who are insurance agents and independent contractors who work as medical transcriptionists, medical billers, and medical coders.

Computer software element for insurance claims processing that edits claims for errors.

State statutes under which unclaimed interest or financial values including life insurance benefits return (escheat) to the state because no designated beneficiary or heir can be located. Also called unclaimed property statutes . See also unclaimed benefits .