Changing the coding of a patient's diagnoses (and perhaps operations) in order to obtain a higher payment for the services...

Tax paid by a nonprofit corporation on the profits of activities which are not related to the nonprofit purpose of...

The official name for a site or address of a resource on the Internet. Resources include home pages, graphic images,...

A medical record (file) in which are kept the records of all hospitalizations of the individual. This is the preferred...

Reporting of patient care information, financial information, or both under uniform definitions (and sometimes formats) in order to permit comparisons...

Submission of a patient's bill with diagnosis or operation coding which will result in a smaller reimbursement than the patient's...

Selling individual components of a service or product separately rather than as a package. Sometimes unbundling is done for the...

Images (pictures) of internal body structures, produced by recording (via computer) the sounds wave reflected from the body structures.  

A mother who is not married at the time she gives birth to a child. Unlike the unwed father, she...

Term for the presumed biological father if a child’s parents are not married and paternity has not been acknowledged or...