HIPAA Law
Access-Availability HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Access
- Accredited Standards Committee (ASC)
- Administrative Code Sets (ACS)
- Administrative Requirements
- Administrative Simplification (A/S)
- Administrative safeguards
- Admission Date
- Affliated Covered Entity
- American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare)
- American Dental Association (ADA)
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- American Hospital Association (AHA)
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Informatics Association
- American National Standards (ANS)
- American National Standards Institute
- American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- Ancillary Services
- Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Automated Clearinghouse (ACH)
- Availability
Biometric-Business HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Biometric Identifier
- Biometrics
- Birthing Center
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
- Business Associate (BA)
- Business Associate Agreement
- Business Model
- Business Partner (BP)
- Business Relationships
Certification-Covered HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Center for Healthcare Information Management
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Certification
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
- Chain of Trust (COT)
- Chain of Trust Agreement
- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
- Claim
- Claim Adjustment Reason Codes
- Claim Attachment
- Claim Medicare Remark Codes
- Claim Status Category Codes
- Claim Status Codes
- Clearinghouse
- Clinical Modification (CM)
- Code Set
- Code Set Maintaining Organization
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR,C.F.R.)
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
- Comment
- Community Mental Health Center
- Compliance date
- Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility
- Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI)
- Confidentiality
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Consent and Authorization (Basic Rule)
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
- Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS)
- Contingency Plan
- Coordination of Benefits (COB)
- Correctional Institution
- Cost-Based Health Maintenance Organization
- Covered Entity (CE)
- Covered Functions
- Covered Information
- Crossover
- Current Dental Terminology (CDT)
- Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
Data-Discloses HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- D-Codes
- Data Aggregation
- Data Council
- De-identification
- Dental Content Committee
- Descriptor
- Designated Code Set
- Designated Data Content Committee
- Designated Record Set
- Designated Standard Maintenance Organization (DSMO)
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
- Direct Data Entry (DDE)
- Direct Treatment Relationship
- Discloses to Public Health Activities
- Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU)
EDI-Explanation HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- EDI Translator
- Effective Date
- Electronic Commerce (EC)
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC)
- Electronic Media
- Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA)
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- Employers
- Encryption
- Explanation of Medicare Benefits (EOMB)
Facility-Freedom HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
GAP-Guideline HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
HCFA-Healthcare HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- HCFA Common Procedural Coding System (HCPCS)
- HCFA1450 - HCFA1500
- HIPAA Data Dictionary (HIPAA DD)
- Health Care
- Health Care Clearinghouse
- Health Care Code Maintenance Committee
- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
- Health Care Operations
- Health Care Provider
- Health Care Provider Taxonomy Committee
- Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC)
- Health Industry Distributors Association, Home Care Division
- Health Informatics Standards Board (HISB)
- Health Information
- Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA)
- Health Insurance Issuer
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health Level Seven (HL7)
- Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
- Health Oversight Agency
- Health Plan
- Health Plan ID
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
- Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- Home Health Services and Staffing Association (HHSSA)
- Hybrid Entity
Implementation-International HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Implementation Guide (IG)
- Incidental Uses and Disclosures
- Indirect Treatment Relationship
- Individual
- Individually Identifiable Health Information
- Information Access Control
- Inmate
- Integrity
- IHCEBR, IHCEBI, IHCLME
- International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
JCodes-Joint HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- J-Codes
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance (JHITA)
Law-Logical HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
Maintenance-Modification HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Maintenance
- Malicious Software
- Managed Care Organization (MCO)
- Marketing
- Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC)
- Maximum Defined Data Set
- Medical Code Sets
- Medical Records Institute (MRI)
- Medicare Benefits Notice (MBN)
- Medicare Remittance Advice Remark Codes
- Medicare Summary Notice (MSN)
- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- Minimum Necessary Information: Use or Requests
- Minimum Scope of Disclosure
- Minnesota Center for Healthcare Electronic Commerce (MCHEC)
- Minnesota EDI Healthcare Users Group (MEHUG)
- Minnesota Health Data Institute (MHDI)
- Modification
NCPDP-NPRM HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- NCPDP
- NUBC EDI Technical Advisory Group (NUBC EDI TAG)
- National Association for Medical Equipment Services (NAMES)
- National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
- National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD)
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
- National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)
- National Drug Code (NDC)
- National Employer ID
- National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)
- National Individual Identifier (NII)
- National Provider File (NPF)
- National Standard Format (NSF)
- National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)
- National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC)
- North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA)
- Notice of Intent (NOI)
- Notice of Privacy Practices
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Office-Organized HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Office for Civil Rights
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- Open System Interconnection (OSI)
- Organized Health Care Arrangement
PAYERID-Public HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- PAYERID
- Patient Access to Records
- Payer
- Penalties
- Permitted Use and Disclosures
- Personal Representative
- Physical Safeguards
- Plan Sponsor
- Policy
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Privacy Notice(s)
- Privacy Official and Contact Person
- Procedure
- Procedure Coding System (PCS)
- Professional EMC NSF
- Protected Health Information (PHI)
- Provider Sponsored Organization (PSO)
- Provider Taxonomy Codes
- Psychotherapy Notes
- Public Health Authority
Regenstrief-Risk HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
Secretary-Summary HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Secretary
- Security or Security Measures
- Segment
- Small Health Plan
- Standard Setting Organization (SSO)
- Standard Transaction Format Compliance System (STFCS)
- State Uniform Billing Committee (SUBC)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP)
- Structured Data
- Subcontractor
- Summary Health Information
Technical-Treatment HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Technical Safeguards
- Third Party Administrator (TPA)
- Trading Partner Agreement (TPA)
- Training
- Transaction
- Transaction Change Request System
- Treatment, Payment & Operations
UB82-User HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- UB-82 UB-92
- US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Uniform Claim Task Force (UCTF)
- United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Procedures and Practices for Administration, Commerce, and Transport (UN/CEFACT)
- United States Code (USC,U.S.C.)
- Use
- User
- Utah Health Information Network (UHIN)
Value Added Network HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
Waiver-Written HIPAA Glossary of Definitions
- Waiver of Rights
- Washington Publishing Company (WPC)
- Welfare Benefit Plan
- Work Group (WG)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Written Authorization
- Written Consent