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PPS prospective payment system
PRB provider review board
PRO peer review organization
ProPAC Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
PS&E provider statistical and reimbursement (report)
PSA physician scarcity area
PSN provider service network
PSO provider service organization
PT physical therapy or physical therapist
PTA physical therapy assistant
QA quality assurance
QFD quality function deployment
RA remittance advice
RAC recovery audit contractor
RAP Resident Assessment Protocol
RBRVS resource-based relative value system
RC Revenue Code (see also RCC)
RCC Revenue Center Code
RFI Request for Information
RFP Request for Proposal
RFQ Request for Quotation
RHC rural health clinic
RM risk management
RN registered nurse
RNFA registered nurse first assistant
RRC rural referral center
RUG Resource Utilization Group
RVS relative value system
RVU relative value unit
S&I supervision and interpretation
SAD self-administrable drug
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SCH sole community hospital
SDS same-day surgery
SGML (Internet) Standardized General Markup Language
SLIP Serial Line IP Protocol (Internet)
SLP speech language pathology (see also ST)
SMI Service Mix Index
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol (Internet e-mail)
SNF skilled nursing facility
SNP special needs plan
SOC standard of care
SOS site of service
SR-DRG Severity Refined DRG (HCFA proposed in 1994)
ST speech therapy (see also SLP)
STACH short-term acute care hospital (see LTCH)
SUBC State Uniform Billing Committee
TLA three-letter acronym
TPA third-party administrator
TPP third-party payer
TQD total quality deployment
TQM total quality management
TSC Transaction Standard/Standard Code Set
(see HIPAA)
UB-04 universal billing form (2004 revision)
UCC Uniform Commercial Code (see state laws)
UCR usual, customary, reasonable
UHC University Health System Consortium
UHDDS Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
UPIN Unique Physician Identification Number
UNIX (Computer) Not an acronym, but a play on the word eunuch
UR Utilization Review
URL Uniform Resource Locator (Internet address)
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USC United States Code
VBP value-based purchasing
VDP voluntary disclosure program
VSR value stream reinvention
W-2 tax withholding form
WWW (Internet) World Wide Web
XML (Internet) eXtensible Markup Language
ZPIC zone program integrity contractor
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