Terminology
& Data References
A reference of commonly used terminology and abbreviations in the donation and transplantation field, as well as data definitions. Explore the list here and scroll down the page to find the data definitions.
A
- A “Tier”
- Abdominal NRP
- ABDR
- ABO
- ABO Blood Type
- Abstract
- Abuse
- Abuse (Personal)
- Access
- Accessibility of Services
- Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)
- Accreditation
- Accreditation Cycle for M+C Deeming
- Accreditation for Deeming
- Accreditation for Participation
- Accredited (Accreditation)
- Accredited Standards Committee
- Acquisition (Organ) Cost
- Acquisition Charge
- Act/Law/Statute
- Action Period
- Active Candidate
- Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Actual Charge
- Actuarial Balance
- Actuarial Deficit
- Actuarial Rates
- Actuarial Soundness
- Actuarial Status
- Acute Rejection
- Ad Hoc Committees
- Additional Benefits
- Additional Donors
- Adjusted
- Adjusted Average per Capita Cost (AAPCC)
- Adjusted Community Rating (ACR)
- Administrative Code Sets
- Administrative Costs
- Administrative Data
- Administrative Expenses
- Administrative Law Judge (ALJ)
- Administrative Services Only
- Administrative Simplification
- Administrative Simplification Compliance Act
- Administrator
- Admission Date
- Admitting Diagnosis Code
- Admitting Physician
- Adrenal and Thymus Vascularized Gland
- Adult Living Care Facility
- Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
- Advance Coverage Decision
- Advance Directive (Health Care)
- Advance Directives
- Adverse Event
- Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
- Advisory Council on Social Security
- Advocate
- Affiliated Contractor
- Affiliated Provider
- Affiliation Agreement
- After Action Review
- Aged Enrollee
- Agent
- Agonal Phase
- Aim
- Albumin
- Algorithm
- Allocation
- Allocation Analysis
- Allocation MELD
- Allocation MELD or PELD Score
- Allocation Policies
- Allograft
- Allowed Amount
- Allowed Charge
- Alternative Allocation System
- Alternative Local Unit
- Alternative Point Assignment Protocols
- Alternative Point Assignment System
- Ambulance (Air or Water)
- Ambulance (Land)
- Ambulatory Care
- Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
- Ambulatory Surgical Center
- Amendments and Corrections
- American Association for Homecare
- American Association of Blood Banks
- American Dental Association
- American Health Information Management Association
- American Hospital Association
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Informatics Association
- American National Standards
- American National Standards Institute
- American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
- American Society for Testing and Materials
- American Society of Multicultural Health and Transplant Professionals
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- American Transplant Congress
- Amortization
- Ancillary Services
- Anemia
- Anesthesia
- Aneurysm
- Annual Data Report (ADR)
- Annual Election Period
- Anoxia
- ANR
- Anti-Rejection Drugs
- Antibody
- Antigen
- Antigen Mismatch
- Antigens determining zero mismatch kidneys
- Appeal
- Appeal Process
- Approved Amount
- Approved MELD or PELD Exception
- Area Agency on Aging (AAA)
- Arterial Blood Gases
- Articles
- Ascites
- Assessment
- Assets
- Assigned Claim
- Assigned MELD or PELD Exception
- Assignment
- Assisted Living
- Associate Councillor
- Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions
- Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
- Assumptions
- AST
- ASTS
- At-large Committee Member
- Attachment(s)
- Attending Physician
- Authoritative Approval
- Authoritative Evidence
- Authorization
- Authorization for Organ Donation
- Authorization Rate
- Authorized Donor
- Authorized, Not Recovered
- Autograft
- Automated Claim Review
- Auxillary Transplant
- Av Fistula
- Average Market Yield
B
- Baby Boom
- Backup offer
- Balance Billing – Medicare
- Balance Billing – Surprise Bills
- Base Estimate
- Basic Benefits
- Basic Benefits (Medigap Policy)
- Benchmark
- Beneficiary
- Beneficiary Encrypted File
- Beneficiary Notification Letter
- Benefit Exclusion
- Benefit Payments
- Benefit Period
- Benefits
- Benefits Description (Plan)
- Benign
- Best Practices
- Biliary Atresia
- Bilirubin
- Biologicals
- Biometric Identifier
- Biopsy
- Birthing Center
- BK Virus
- Blood Type
- Blood Urea Nitrogen
- Blood Vessels
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
- BMI
- Board and Care Home
- Board Hearing
- Board of Directors
- Board of Trustees
- Board-Certified
- Body Mass Index
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Body Record
- Bond
- Bone
- Bone Marrow
- Bonus
- Brain Death
- Brain Death Evaluation
- Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Evaluation
- Brain Stem
- Brain Stem Reflexes
- Breakthrough Collaborative
- Bridge Donor
- Business Associate
- Business Days
- Business Members
- Business Model
- Business Partner
- Business Relationships
C
- Cadaveric
- Cadaveric Donors
- Cadaveric Transplant
- Calculated MELD
- Calculated Panel Reactive Antibody
- Callable
- Candidate
- Candidates on the Waiting List of the Hospital or Designated Transplant Program
- Capitation
- Capped Rental Item
- Cardiac
- Cardiac Death
- Cardiac Output
- Cardiologist
- Cardiomyopathy
- Care Plan
- Caregiver
- Carrier
- Case Management
- Case Manager
- Case Mix
- Case Mix Index
- Cash Basis
- Catastrophic Brain Injury
- Catastrophic Brain Injury Guidelines
- Catastrophic Illness
- Catastrophic Limit
- Censoring
- Center for Healthcare Information Management
- Center of Excellence
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Data Center User Form
- Central Venous Pressure
- CEPTC
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Certificate of Indebtedness
- Certificate of Medical Necessity
- Certified (Certification)
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
- Chain
- Chain of Trust
- Chain of Trust Agreement
- Change Concept
- Charge Capture
- Chief Complaint
- Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) Score
- Chimerism
- Chronic
- Chronic Disease Research Group
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
- Chronic Maintenance Dialysis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic Rejection
- Circulatory Death
- Cirrhosis
- Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPUS)
- Claim
- Claim Adjustment Reason Codes
- Claim Attachment
- Claim Status Category Codes
- Claim Status Codes
- Clamp Time
- Classification
- Clinical Breast Exam
- Clinical Performance Measure
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Triggers
- Closed Variance
- CMS
- CMS Agent
- CMS Directed Improvement Process
- CMS State Operations Manual
- CMS Tag Numbers
- CMS-1450
- CMS-1500
- CMV (Cytomegalovirus)
- CNR
- Co-pay
- Cockcroft-Gault Formula
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Code Set
- Code Set Maintaining Organization
- Cognitive Impairment
- Cohort
- Coinsurance
- Coinsurance (Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plan)
- Coinsurance (Outpatient Prospective Payment System)
- Cold Ischemia Time
- Cold Ischemia Time (CIT)
- Collaborative
- College of American Pathologists
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
- Comment
- Commercial Mco
- Committee-Sponsored Alternative System
- Committees
- Common Rule
- Community Mental Health Center
- Complaint
- Complaint (of Fraud or Abuse)
- Compliance
- Compliance Date
- Composite
- Composite allocation score
- Composite Allocation Score (CAS)
- Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility
- Comprehensive Mco
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF)
- Computer Matching Agreement
- Computer-Based Patient Record Institute-Healthcare Open Systems and Trials
- Computerized Axial Tomography (CT or Cat Scan)
- Computerized Axial Tomography Scan
- Conditional Payment
- Conditions for Coverage
- Conditions of Participation
- Confidence Interval
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of Interest
- Congenital
- Congestive heart failure
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Connective Tissue
- Consent and Authorization (Basic Rule)
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)*
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
- Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS)
- Consumer Price Index
- Consumer Self-Report Data
- Consumer Survey Data
- Contingency
- Contingency Margin
- Continuation of Enrollment
- Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
- Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
- Continuous Cycling Peritoneal Dialysis
- Continuous Distribution
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Contract Agreement
- Contractor
- Contractor Policy
- Contribution Base
- Contributions
- Controlled DCD
- Conversion, Conversion Rate
- Coordinated Care Plan
- Coordination of Benefits
- Coordination Period
- Cornea
- Coronary artery disease
- Corrective Action Plan
- Corrective Action Plan (CAP)
- Corrective and Preventative Action Plan
- Corticosteroid
- Cost Allocation
- Cost Rate
- Cost Report
- Cost Sharing
- Cost-Based Health Maintenance Organization
- Councillor
- Coverage Analysis for Laboratories (CALS)
- Covered Vascularized Composite Allograft body parts
- Covered Vascularized Composite Allograft Body Parts (Covered Vcas)
- Covered VCA(S) Type
- CPRA
- Creatinine
- Criteria (Medical Criteria)
- Critical Pathway for the Organ Donor
- Cross-Matching
- Crossmatch
- CT Scan (Computed Tomography Scan)
- Culture and Sensitivity
- Culture and Sensitivity (C+S)
- Cusum
- Cyclosporine
- Cyst
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- Cytomegalovirus
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
D
- Data
- Data Advisory Committee
- Data and Matching System, the OPTN Organ Labeling, Packaging, and Tracking System, the OPTN Patient
- Data Safety Monitoring Board
- Data Use Agreement
- Data Use Checklist
- Data Working Group
- Date of Filing and Date of Submission
- Date of Receipt
- Day
- DBD
- DBD Donor (Deceased After Brain Death Donor)
- DCD
- DCD Donor (Deceased After Circulatory Death Donor)
- Death by Neurologic Criteria
- Death Consistent with Organ Donation
- Death Rate
- Death Record Review
- Deaths per Day while Waiting
- Deceased Donor
- Deceased Donor Organ Nonutilization Rate
- Deceased Donor Organ Yield
- Deceased Donor Registration Form
- Deceased Donor Transplant
- Declaration of Circulatory Death
- Decline for Donation
- Deductible
- Deductible (Medicare)
- Deemed
- Deemed Status
- Deemed Wage Credit
- Deeming Authority
- Deficiency (Nursing Home)
- Dehydration
- Delayed Graft Function
- Delayed Graft Function (DGF)
- Demographic Assumptions
- Demographic Data
- Demonstrations
- Dental Content Committee
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Health and Human Services (Dhhs or HHS)
- Derivative File
- Descriptor
- Designated Code Set
- Designated Data Content Committee or Designated Dcc
- Designated Requestor
- Designated Standard
- Designated Standard Maintenance Organization
- Designated Transplant Program
- Determination
- Devastating Brain Injury
- Diabetes
- Diabetic Durable Medical Equipment
- Diagnosis
- Diagnosis Code
- Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)
- Diagnosis-Related Groups
- Dialysate
- Dialysis
- Dialysis Center (Renal)
- Dialysis Facility (Renal)
- Dialysis Station
- Diastolic Blood Pressure
- Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
- Direct and Indirect Costs
- Direct Data Entry
- Direct Offer
- Directed Donation
- Disability
- Disability Insurance
- Disabled Enrollee
- Discard Rate
- Discharge Planning
- Disclosure
- Disclosure History
- Discount Drug List
- Discretionary Spending
- Disenroll
- Disproportionate Share Hospital
- Diversity
- Division of Transplantation
- Division of Transplantation (DOT)
- DMTF
- Do Not Resusitate
- Domino Donor
- Domino Transplant
- Donate Life America
- Donate Life, Done Vida
- Donation
- Donation after brain death/donation after death by neurologic criteria
- Donation after Circulatory Death
- Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)
- Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death
- Donation and Transplantation Community of Practice
- Donation Champion
- Donation Rate
- Donation rate measure
- Donation Service Area
- Donation Service Area (DSA)
- Donor
- Donor Conversion
- Donor Council
- Donor Designation
- Donor Histocompatibility Form
- Donor Hospital
- Donor ID
- Donor Management
- Donor Management Goals
- Donor Pool
- Donor Potential
- Donor Record
- Donor Recovery Center
- Donor Registries
- DonorNet® 2007
- DonorNetSM
- Downcode
- Draft Standard for Trial Use
- DRG Coding
- Drug Tiers
- Dual Eligibles
- Durable Medical Equipment
- Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
- Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME Mac)
- Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier (DMERC)
- Durable Power of Attorney
E
- Early Adopter
- Early Majority
- Earnings
- EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus)
- Economic Assumptions
- Economic Stabilization Program
- EDI Translator
- Edit
- Effective
- Effective Date
- Effective Date of Contract
- Effective Request
- Effective Request Process
- Effective Request Rate
- Efficient
- Eldercare
- Election
- Election Periods
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Electronic Health Record
- Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission
- Electronic Media Claims
- Electronic Media Questionnaire
- Electronic Medical Record
- Electronic Organ Placement Working Group
- Electronic Remittance Advice
- Eligibility
- Eligibility/Medicare Part A
- Eligibility/Medicare Part B
- Eligible Death
- Eligible Organ Donor
- Emergency
- Emergency Care
- Emergency Room (Hospital)
- Emphysema
- Employee
- Employer
- Employer Bulletin Board Service
- Employer Group Health Plan (GHP)
- Employer Identifier
- EMT-Basic
- EMT-Intermediate
- EMT-Paramedic
- EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)
- En Bloc
- En Bloc (or En-Bloc)
- Encephalopathy
- Encounter Data
- End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Facility
- End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD/ESRD; also called Kidney Failure)
- End-Stage Liver Disease
- End-Stage Liver Disease (ESLD)
- End-Stage Organ Disease
- End-Stage Renal Disease
- End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
- End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program
- End-Stage Renal Disease Network
- End-Stage Renal Disease Program
- Enhanced Benefits
- Enroll
- Enrollee Hotlines
- Enrollment
- Enrollment Fee
- Enrollment Period
- Enrollment/Part A
- Entity Assets
- Epidemiology
- Episode
- Episode of Care
- Epstein-Barr Virus
- Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
- Eqro Organization
- Equity
- Equivalency Review
- ESRD
- ESRD Eligibility Requirements
- ESRD Facility
- ESRD Network
- ESRD Network Organization
- ESRD Patient
- ESRD Services
- Establish Policy Criteria, Policy Objectives and Performance Measures with Procedures for Continuous
- Estimated Hazard Ratio
- Ethics
- Ethics Committee
- Ethnicity
- Evaluation Costs
- Evaluation Plan
- Event
- Evidence
- Evidence of Funding
- Ex-vivo
- Excess Charges
- Exchange
- Exclusions (Medicare)
- Executive Committee
- Expanded Criteria Donor (Ecd) Kidney
- Expanded Criteria Kidney
- Expected Donation Rate
- Expected Number of Transplanted Organs
- Expected Organs Transplanted per 100 Donors
- Expedited Appeal
- Expedited Organization Determination
- Expeditious task force
- Expenditure
- Expense
- Explanation of Benefits (EOB)
- Extended Care Services
- External Quality Review Organization
- Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
- Extra Vessels
- Extrarenal
- Extratrenal
F
- Facility Billing (Hospital Component)
- Facility Charge
- False Negatives
- False Positives
- Family Care Specialist
- Federal General Revenues
- Federal Insurance Contribution Act Payroll Tax
- Federal Insurance Contributions Act
- Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act
- Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
- Federal Register
- Federally Qualified Health Center
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- Fee Schedule
- Fee-for-Services
- Fee-Screen Year
- Final Rule
- Finance Committee
- Financial Data
- Financial Interchange
- First Person Authorization
- First Person Consent Legislation
- First Responder
- First Things First
- Fiscal Intermediary
- Fiscal Year
- Fixed Capital Assets
- Flat File
- Focused Studies
- Food and Drug Administration
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second
- Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second (Fev1)
- Forced Vital Capacity
- Forced Vital Capacity (FVC)
- Format
- Formulary
- Formulary Drugs
- Fraud
- Fraud and Abuse
- Free Look (Medigap Policy)*
- Freedom of Information Act
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Frequency Distribution
- Full Capitation
- Full Capitation (FUL)
- Full PSC or Full Program Safeguard Contractor
- Fully Accredited
- Fulminant
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure (FHF)
- Functional Status
- Fungal Disease
G
- Gapfilling
- Gaps
- Gatekeeper
- General Enrollment Period (GEP)
- General Fund of the Treasury
- General Revenue
- Generic Drug
- Genetic Disorder
- Geographic Units for Organ Distribution
- Geographical Area
- Geographically Contiguous Campus
- Global Payment
- Glomerular Filtration Rate
- Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
- Glomerulonephritis
- Glomerulonephritis (GN)
- Governmental Assets, Liabilities
- Graft
- Graft Failure
- Graft Survival
- Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
- Grievance
- Grievances and Complaints
- Gross Domestic Product
- Group Health Plan
- Group or Network HMO
- Guaranteed Issue Rights (Also Called “Medigap Protections”)
- Guaranteed Renewable
- Guidelines
H
- Haplotype
- HCFA-1450
- HCFA-1500
- HCV
- Head and Neck
- Health and Human Services
- Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Health Care Clearinghouse
- Health Care Code Maintenance Committee
- Health Care Prepayment Plan
- Health Care Provider
- Health Care Provider Taxonomy Committee
- Health Care Quality Improvement Program
- Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
- Health Informatics Standards Board
- Health Insurance Association of America
- Health Insurance Claims Number
- Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
- Health Insuring Organization
- Health Level Seven
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
- Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO)
- Health Plan
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System
- Healthcare Financial Management Association
- Healthcare Provider Taxonomy Codes
- Hearing
- Heart
- Heart Valves
- HEDIS Measures from Encounter Data
- Hematocrit
- Hematocrit (HCT)
- Hematuria
- Hemodiafiltration
- Hemodialysis
- Hemodialysis (HD)
- Hemofiltration
- Hemoglobin
- Hemoglobin (HGB)
- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI)
- Hepatic
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis B Virus
- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)
- Hepatitis C Virus
- Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)
- Hepatologist
- Heterotopic Transplant
- HHS
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
- High Blood Pressure/Hypertension (HTN)
- High Cost Alternative
- High Leverage Changes
- High Risk Area
- HIPAA Covered Entity
- HIPAA Data Dictionary or HIPAA Dd
- HIPAA Minimum Necessary Requirement
- Hippocratic Oath
- Histocompatibility
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Histocompatibility Committee
- Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Histocompatibility Laboratory Member
- HIV Organ Policy Equity Act
- HLA
- HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigens)
- HLA Mismatch
- HLA Mismatch (MM)
- Hollow Organs
- Home
- Home and Community-Based Service Waiver Programs (HCBS)
- Home Health Agency
- Home Health Care
- Home Patients
- Homebound
- Honor Walk
- Hospice
- Hospice Care
- Hospital Assumptions
- Hospital Coinsurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Hospital Input Price Index
- Hospital Insurance
- Hospital Insurance (Part A)
- Hospital Market Basket
- Hospital Strategic Plan
- Hospital-based Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Hospital-based OPO
- Hospitalist
- Host OPO
- Host Organ Procurement Organization
- Host Organ Procurement Organization (Host OPO)
- HRSA
- Huddle
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Human Leukocyte Antigen
- Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)
- Human Leukocyte Antigen System
- Human Leukocyte Antigen System (HLA System)
- Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA)
- Human Research Subject
- Hybrid Entity
- Hydration
- Hypertension (or High Blood Pressure)
- Hypothermic machine perfusion
I
- ICD & ICD-N-Cm & ICD-N-Pcs
- Idiopathic
- Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Imminent Deaths
- Imminent Neurological Death
- Immune Response
- Immune System
- Immunogenicity
- Immunosuppression
- Immunosuppressive
- Immunosuppressive Drugs
- Immunosuppressive Medication Costs
- Implementation Guide
- Implementation Specification
- Import Match Run
- Improvement Leader
- Improvement Plan
- In-Hospital Deaths
- In-Network Costs
- In-Network Providers
- In-service Hospital Education
- Inactive Candidate
- Inactive Status
- Inappropriate Utilization
- Incidence
- Inclusion
- Income Rate
- Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model
- Incurred Basis
- Independent Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Independent Laboratory
- Independent Living Donor Advocate
- Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA)
- Independent OPO
- Independent OPO (IOPO)
- Indicator
- Individual Member
- Induction Therapy
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Information Model
- Information, Counseling, and Assistance Program
- Informed Consent
- Infusion Pumps
- Initial (Claim) Determination
- Initial Coverage Election Period
- Initial Enrollment Period
- Initial Enrollment Questionnaire (IEQ)
- Innovator
- Inotropes
- Inpatient Care
- Inpatient Hospital
- Inpatient Hospital Deductible
- Inpatient Hospital Services
- Inpatient Psychiatric Facility
- Insolvency
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
- Institutional Review Board
- Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Insurer
- Intended Candidate
- Intended Incompatible
- Inter or Intra Agency Agreement
- Interest
- Interfund Borrowing
- Intermediary
- Intermediary Hearing
- Intermediary/Program Safeguard Contractor Determination
- Intermediate Assumptions
- Intermediate Care Facility/Mentally Retarded
- Intermediate Entities
- Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis
- Internal Controls
- Internal Revenue Service/Social Security Administration/Health Care Financing Administration Data Match
- International Classification of Diseases
- International Normalized Ratio
- International Normalized Ratio (INR)
- International Organization for Standardization
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Internist
- Interpretative Guidance
- Intestine
- Intestines
- Intragovernmental Assets, Liabilities
- Investigational
- IRS Reporting
- Islet Infusion
- ISO 9001:2008
J
K
- KDPI
- KDPI (Kidney Donor Profile Index)
- KDRI
- Key Personnel
- Kidney Allocation Review Subcommittee
- Kidney Allocation System
- Kidney and Pancreas Simulated Allocation Model
- Kidney and Pancreas Simulated Allocation Model (KPSAM)
- Kidney Donor Profile Index
- Kidney Paired Donation
- Kidney Paired Donation (KPD)
- Kidney Pancreas Advisory Council
- Kidney Transplant
- Kidney Transplantation Committee
- Kidneys
L
- Large Group Health Plan
- Las
- Ldc
- Learning Session
- Left Ventricular Assist Device
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
- Legal Next of Kin / Legal Authorizing Party
- Legislation
- Letter of Request
- Letter of Support
- Leukocyte
- Liability Determination
- Liability Insurance
- Licensed (Licensure)
- Licensed by the State as a Risk-Bearing Entity
- Life-years
- Lifetime Maximum
- Lifetime Reserve Days
- Lifetime Reserve Days (Medicare)
- Ligaments
- Limiting Charge
- Line Item
- Liver
- Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee
- Liver Simulated Allocation Model
- Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM)
- Living Donation
- Living Donor
- Living Donor (LD)
- Living Donor Committee
- Living Donor Follow-up Form
- Living Donor Kidney Transplant
- Living Donor Organ
- Living Donor Recipient
- Living Donor Registration Form
- Living Wills
- Living-Related Donor
- Living-Related Donor (LRD)
- Living-Unrelated Donor
- Local
- Local Code(S)
- Local Codes
- Local Coverage Determination (LCD)
- Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes
- Long Range
- Long-Term Care
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- Longer Term Care Minimum Data Set
- Loop
- Lost to Follow-up
- Low Cost Alternative
- Lower Limb
- Lower Respiratory Specimen
- Lung Allocation Score
- Lung Allocation Score (LAS)
- Lung Review Board
- Lung Review Board (LRB)
- Lungs
- Lymphocytotoxic Crossmatch Test
M
- M+C Organization (Medicare+Choice)
- M+C Plan
- Malignancy
- Malnutrition
- Mammogram
- Managed Care
- Managed Care Organization
- Managed Care Payment Suspension
- Managed Care Plan
- Managed Care Plan with a Point of Service Option (POS)
- Managed Care System
- Mandatory Spending
- Mandatory Supplemental Benefits
- Manual Claim Review
- Manual Transmittals
- Marginal Donor
- Market Basket
- Mass Immunization Center
- Match
- Match Run
- Match System
- Matched Candidate
- Matched Donor
- Matched Recipient
- Matching
- Material Weakness
- Maximum Defined Data Set
- Maximum Enrollee Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Maximum Plan Benefit Coverage
- Maximum Tax Base
- Maximum Taxable Amount of Annual Earnings
- Mco/Php Standards
- Measurement
- Mediate
- Medicaid
- Medicaid Management Information System
- Medicaid Mco
- Medicaid-Only Mco
- Medical Code Sets
- Medical Insurance (Part B)
- Medical Necessity
- Medical Record
- Medical Record Review
- Medical Records Institute
- Medical Review/Utilization Review
- Medical Underwriting
- Medical/Scientific Member
- Medically Complex Organ
- Medically Necessary
- Medicare
- Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)
- Medicare Advantage Plan
- Medicare Benefits
- Medicare Benefits Notice
- Medicare Carrier
- Medicare Contractor
- Medicare Coordination of Benefits Contractor
- Medicare Cost Report
- Medicare Cost Report Principles for Transplant
- Medicare Coverage
- Medicare Coverage Documents (MCDs)
- Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
- Medicare Economic Index
- Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) (formerly known as MCAC)
- Medicare Handbook
- Medicare Managed Care Plan
- Medicare Medical Savings Account Plan (MSA)
- Medicare National Coverage Determinations Manual
- Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance)
- Medicare Part A Fiscal Intermediary
- Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance)
- Medicare Part B Carrier
- Medicare Part B Premium Reduction Amount
- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
- Medicare Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) Plan
- Medicare Premium Collection Center (MPCC)
- Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plan
- Medicare Program Integrity Manual
- Medicare Remittance Advice Remark Codes
- Medicare Savings Program
- Medicare Savings Programs
- Medicare Secondary Payer
- Medicare Select
- Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG)
- Medicare Summary Notice (MSN)
- Medicare Supplement Insurance
- Medicare Trust Funds
- Medicare-Approved Amount
- Medicare+Choice
- Medicare+Choice Plan
- Medication Administration Record
- Medication Administration Record (MAR)
- Medigap Policy
- MELD
- Member
- Member Elector
- Members
- Membership and Professional Standards Committee
- Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC)
- Memorandum of Understanding
- Metabolic Disorder
- Methods
- Metrics
- Microalbumin
- Military Service Wage Credits
- Military Treatment Facility
- Minimum Scope of Disclosure
- Minority Affairs Committee
- Mismatch
- Mismatch (MM)
- Missed DCD Potential
- Missed Eligible Death
- Missed Organ Referral
- Modality
- Model for End Stage Liver Disease
- Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD)
- Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD)
- Model for Improvement
- Model-identified offer filter
- Modified Average-Cost Method
- Modify or Modification
- Moment of Silence
- Monitoring
- Monitoring of Mco/Php Standards
- Month
- Morbidity
- Morbidity Rate
- Mortality
- Mortality Data
- Mortality Rate
- Mpsc
- MRI Scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan)
- Multi-Employer Group Health Plan
- Multi-Employer Plan
- Multi-organ Candidate
- Multi-visceral
- Multilisting
- Multiorgan Transplant
- Multiple Causes of Death
- Multiple Employer Plan
- Multiple Listing
- Multivariate Analysis
N
- National Academcies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
- National Association of Health Data Organizations
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners
- National Association of State Medicaid Directors
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
- National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
- National Coverage Analyses (NCA)
- National Coverage Determinations (NCDs)
- National Coverage Policy
- National Drug Code
- National Employer Id
- National Health Information Infrastructure
- National Improvement Projects
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institutes of Health
- National Kidney Foundation
- National Liver Review Board
- National Median Charge
- National Organ Transplant Act
- National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA)
- National Organ Transplant Act (Nota), 42 U.S.C. §273 Et Seq.
- National Patient Id
- National Payer Id
- National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)
- National Provider Identifier (NPI)
- National Standard Format
- National Standard per Visit Rates
- National Uniform Billing Committee
- National Uniform Claim Committee
- Nca Closed
- Nca Decision Memoranda
- Nca New
- Nca Pending
- Nca Reconsideration
- Ncpdp Batch Standard
- Ncpdp Telecommunication Standard
- Nebulizers
- Neglect
- Neonatatology
- Nephrectomy
- Nephrologist
- Network
- Network / In-Network Provider
- New York Heart Association Functional Classification
- New York Heart Association Functional Classification (NYHA)
- Nnpi Enumerator
- No-Fault Insurance
- Non-Covered Service
- Non-Directed Donor
- Non-Directed Donor (NDD)
- Non-domino therapeutic Donor
- Non-Entity Assets
- Non-Federal Agency
- Non-Formulary Drugs
- Non-Function
- Non-heartbeating Donor
- Non-Heartbeating Donor (NHBD)
- Non-US citizen/Non-US resident
- Non-Us Citizen/Us Resident
- Noncompliance
- Noncontributory or Deemed Wage Credits
- Nonparticipating Physician
- Normothermic regional perfusion
- North American Transplant Coordinators Organization
- North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO)
- North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance
- Notice of Intent
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
- NPI Registry
- Nplanid
- Nubc Edi Tag
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
- Nutrition
O
- Obligation
- Observed Donation Rate
- Observed Organs Transplanted per 100 Donors
- Observed to Expected
- Occupational Therapy
- Offer Acceptance Rate
- Offer Acceptance Rate Ratio
- Offer Acceptance Ratio
- Office
- Office for Civil Rights
- Office for Human Research Protections
- Office of Management & Budget
- Offset
- Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
- Ombudsman
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
- On-Site Reviews
- Open Enrollment Period
- Open System Interconnection
- Open variance
- Operations Committee
- OPO
- OPO Member
- OPO-Specific Report (OSR)
- OPO-specific reports
- Optional Supplemental Benefits
- OPTN
- OPTN Account
- OPTN Charter
- OPTN computer match program
- OPTN Computer Registration Fee
- OPTN Computer System
- OPTN Contractor
- OPTN Final Rule
- OPTN Membership
- OPTN obligations
- OPTN Organ Tracking System
- OPTN Registration Fees
- Organ
- Organ Allocation Policies
- Organ Approach
- Organ Approach Authorization Rate
- Organ Center
- Organ Center (OC)
- Organ Center Staff
- Organ Donation
- Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act
- Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative
- Organ Donation Collaborative Change Package
- Organ Nonuse
- Organ Nonuse Rate
- Organ offer acceptance
- Organ offer refusal
- Organ Placement Process
- Organ Placement Specialist
- Organ Preservation
- Organ Procurement
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)
- Organ Procurement Organization
- Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)
- Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Fee
- Organ Procurement Organization Committee
- Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO)
- Organ Procurement Transplantation Network (OPTN)
- Organ Recovery Rate
- Organ Referral/Notification
- Organ transplant
- Organ Transplant Breakthrough Collaborative
- Organ Yield
- Organ Yield per Donor
- Organizational Determination
- Organs authorized for recovery
- Organs discarded
- Organs recovered for research
- Organs recovered per donor
- Organs transplanted per donor
- Original Medicare Plan
- Orphan candidate
- Osr
- Other antibody specificities
- Other Managed Care Arrangement
- Other Unlisted Facility
- Out of Area
- Out of Network Benefit
- Out of Network Provider (OON)
- Out of Pocket Maximum (OOP Max)
- Out-of-Network Costs
- Out-of-Network Providers
- Out-of-Pocket Costs
- Outcome
- Outcome and Assessment Information Set
- Outcome Data
- Outcome Indicator
- Outcomes
- Outlay
- Outlier
- Outlier Payment
- Outpatient Care
- Outpatient Hospital
- Outpatient Hospital Services (Medicare)*
- Outpatient Prospective Payment System
- Outpatient Services
- Overpayment Assessment
P
- Pair
- Paired candidate
- Paired donor
- Paired donor’s transplant hospital
- Paired recipient
- Pancreas
- Pancreas Transplant Alone
- Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA)
- Pancreas Transplantation Committee
- Panel Reactive Antibody
- Panel Reactive Antibody (PRA)
- Panel Size
- Pap Test
- Part A (Hospital Insurance)
- Part A (Medicare)
- Part A of Medicare
- Part A Premium
- Part B (Medical Insurance)
- Part B (Medicare)
- Part B of Medicare
- Partial Capitation
- Partial Hospitalization
- Partially Capitated
- Participating Hospitals
- Participating Physician or Supplier
- Past Medical History
- Past Medical History (PMH)
- Past Surgical History
- Past Surgical History (PSH)
- Patient
- Patient Advocate
- Patient Affairs Committee
- Patient Lifts
- Patient Self-Determination Act
- Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
- Patient Survival
- Patient-Time or Patient-Years
- Patient-years
- Pattern Analysis
- Pay-as-You-Go Financing
- Payer
- Payerid
- Payment
- Payment Rate
- Payment Safeguards
- Payment Suspension
- Payroll Taxes
- PCO2
- Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease (PELD)
- Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease (PELD) Scoring System
- Pediatric Transplantation Committee
- Peer Review
- PELD
- Pelvic Exam
- Penis and Scrotum External Male Genitalia
- Percentile
- Performance
- Performance Assessment
- Performance benchmark
- Performance Improvement
- Performance Improvement Projects
- Performance Measure
- Performance Measures
- Performance Tiers
- Perfusion
- Periods of Care (Hospice)
- Peripheral blood stem cells
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cells (PBSC)
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)
- Personal Care
- PHS Guidelines
- Physical Therapy
- Physician Assistant (PA)
- Physician Group
- Physician Incentive Plan
- Physician Services
- Placement
- Plan for Quality Improvement
- Plan for Quality Improvement (PQI)
- Plan Id
- Plan of Care
- Plan Sponsor
- Plan-Do-Study-Act
- Planned Donation Conversation
- Planned Removal of a Uterus
- Plasmapheresis
- Point of Service (POS)
- Policy 11: Allocation of Pancreas, Kidney-Pancreas, and Islets, and Policy 12: Allocation of Covered
- Policy Advisory Group
- Policy Development Process
- Policy Oversight Committee
- Policy Oversight Committee (POC)
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)
- Post-Transplant Costs
- Postpayment Review
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder
- Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD)
- Posttransplant Malignancy Form
- Potential Candidate
- Potential Donor
- Potential Fraud Case
- Potential Payments
- Potential transplant recipient
- Potential Transplant Recipient (PTR)
- Power Analysis
- Power of Attorney
- Pre-Existing Condition
- Pre-transplant Costs
- Pre-Transplant Mortality Rate Ratio
- Preemptive Kidney Transplantation
- Preferred Provider Organization
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) Plan
- Premature Ventricular Contractions
- Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs)
- Premium
- Premium Surcharge
- Prepaid Health Plan
- Prepayment Review
- Present Value
- Preservation
- Pretransplant Mortality Rate
- Prevalence
- Preventive Services
- Prework Packet
- Prework Period
- Pricer
- Pricer or Repricer
- Primary Care
- Primary Care Case Management Provider
- Primary Care Doctor
- Primary Care Physician
- Primary Case Management
- Primary Laboratory Director
- Primary Non-Function
- Primary Non-Function (PNF)
- Primary Payer
- Primary potential transplant recipient
- Primary Transplant Physician
- Primary Transplant Surgeon
- Primary Waiting Time
- Prior Authorization (PA)
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Privacy Incident
- Private Contract
- Private Fee-for-Service Plan
- Probability value
- Procedure
- Process
- Process Improvement
- Process Indicator
- Procurement
- Procurement Coordinator
- Productivity Investments
- Profiles
- Program Coverage Plan
- Program Coverage Plan (PCP)
- Program Goals
- Program Management
- Program Management and Medical Information System
- Program Safeguard Contractor
- Program-specific report
- Program-Specific Report (PSR)
- Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Project Officer
- Projection Error
- Propensity Analysis
- Pros and Cons
- Prospective Payment System
- Protected Health Information
- Proteinuria
- Provider
- Provider Billing (Professional Component)
- Provider Network
- Provider Sponsored Organization (PSO)
- Provider Survey Data
- Provider Taxonomy Codes
- Provisional yes
- Proxy
- Psychiatric Facility (Partial Hospitalization)
- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Center
- Public Comment
- Public Organization Member
- Public Responsibility in Medical Research
- Public Use File
- Pull
- Pulmonary
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs)
- Pulmonologist
- Pump
- Pump Time
- Purchase Order
- Push
- Pyelonephritis
Q
- QITF
- Qualified health care professional
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB)
- Qualified specimen
- Qualifying date
- Qualifying Individuals (1) (Qi-1S)
- Qualifying Individuals (2) (Qi-2S)
- Quality
- Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
- Quality Improvement Organization
- Quality Improvement Task Force (QITF)
- Quinquennial Military Service Determination and Adjustments
- Quorum
R
- Race
- Railroad Retirement
- Random Sample
- Rate
- Real-Wage Differential
- Reasonable Cost
- Reasonable-Cost Basis
- Receiving transplant program
- Recipient
- Recipient Histocompatibility Form
- Recoupment
- Recovered donors
- Recovered organ
- Recovery
- Recovery (organ)
- Recovery hospital
- Referral
- Referral Rate
- Referral Services
- Referred Death
- Refusal Reasons
- Regenstrief Institute
- Region
- Regional Administrator
- Regional Associate Councillor
- Regional Councillor
- Regional Councillors
- Regional Home Health Intermediary (RHHI)
- Regional Office
- Regional Review Boards
- Regional Review Boards (RRBs)
- Regions
- Registered Organ Donors
- Registration date
- Registration Fee
- Regression Analysis
- Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation (as Distinguished from Vocational Rehabilitation)
- Reject Status
- Rejection
- Rejection (Acute and Chronic)
- Renal
- Renal Transplant Center
- Reopening
- Report Card
- Requester
- Requestor
- Required Request
- Rerelease
- Research
- Research Data Assistance Center
- Research Protocol
- Reserve Days
- Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
- Residual Factors
- Resource-Based Relative Value Scale
- Respite Care
- Restraints
- Retransplantation
- Retrieval
- Reuse
- Revenue
- Revenue Code
- Review of Claims
- Right Ventricular Assist Device
- Right Ventricular Assist Device (RVAD)
- Rights of Individuals
- Risk Adjusted
- Risk Adjustment
- Risk Pools
- Risk-Based Health Maintenance Organization/Competitive Medical Plan
- Root Cause Analysis
- Routine Referral
- Routine Use
- Rural Health Clinic
S
- Sample Size Estimate
- Sanctions
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR)
- Second Opinion
- Secondary Payer
- Secretary
- Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Security incident
- Seer – Medicare Database
- Seer Program
- Segment
- Self Dialysis
- Self-Employment
- Self-Employment Contribution Act Payroll Tax
- Self-Insured
- Sensitization
- Sequester
- Service
- Service Area
- Service Area (Private Fee-for-Service)
- Service Category Definition
- Sharing Agreement
- Sharing arrangements
- Short Range
- Short-term Inactivity
- Side Effect
- Simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK)
- Single Drug Pricer
- Site Survey
- Skilled Care
- Skilled Nursing Care
- Skilled Nursing Facility
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
- Skilled Nursing Facility Care
- Skin
- Slk
- Small Health Plan
- SMI Premium
- SNF Coinsurance
- Social Health Maintenance Organization (SHMO)
- Social Security Act
- Social Security Act, Section 1138
- Social Security Administration
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Solid Organs
- Source document
- Special Election Period
- Special Enrollment Period
- Special Public-Debt Obligation
- Specialist
- Specialty Contractor
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Specialty Plan
- Specified Disease Insurance
- Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB)
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Spell of Illness
- Split liver
- Spread Strategy
- Staff Assisted Dialysis
- Stages of CKD
- Standard Claims Processing System
- Standard Criteria Donor
- Standard Criteria Donor (SCD)
- Standard Criteria Donor (Scd) Kidney
- Standard Criteria Donor Kidney
- Standard Error
- Standard Transaction
- Standards
- State Certification
- State Children’S Health Insurance Program
- State Health Insurance Assistance Program
- State Insurance Department
- State Law
- State Licensure Agency
- State Medical Assistance Office
- State or Local Public Health Clinic
- State Survey
- State Survey Agency
- State Uniform Billing Committee
- Statement of Principles and Objectives of Equitable Organ Allocation
- Statistical Significance
- Status
- Status Location
- Stem Cells
- Steroids
- Stochastic Model
- Stop Loss Coverage
- Strategic National Implementation Process
- Subsidized Senior Housing
- Substantial Financial Risk
- Summarized Cost Rate
- Summarized Income Rate
- Supplemental Edit Software
- Supplementary Medical Insurance
- Supplier
- Survey and Certification Process
- Survival Rates
- Suspension of Payments
- Sustainable Growth Rate
- Syntax
- System Notice
- System of Records
- Systematic
- Systolic Blood Pressure
T
- Tax and Donations
- Tax Rate
- Taxable Earnings
- Taxable Payroll
- Taxable Self-Employment Income
- Taxable Wages
- Taxation of Benefits
- Taxes
- Technology Assessment (TA)
- Telemedicine
- Teletypewriter (tty)
- Temporary Leave
- Tendon
- Term Insurance
- Termination
- Test of Long-Range Close Actuarial Balance
- Test of Short-Range Financial Adequacy
- The Donor and the Candidate Have Compatible or Permissible Blood Types
- The Joint Commission
- Therapeutic donor
- Third Party Administrator
- Third Party Use
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee
- Thoracic Organs
- Thoracoabdominal NRP
- Three-way exchange
- Tier 1 OPO
- Tier 2 OPO
- Tier 3 OPO
- Tiered Medication Structure
- Time to Transplant
- Time to Transplant (TT)
- Time-out
- Timely Referral Rate
- Timely Referral/Notification
- Tissue
- Tissue Donation
- Tissue Type
- Tissue Typing
- Total Artificial Heart
- Total Deaths in the DSA
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Trading Partner
- Transaction
- Transaction Change Request System
- Transferring Waiting Time
- Transient Patients
- TransNetSM
- Transplant
- Transplant Administrators Committee
- Transplant Candidate Registration Form
- Transplant Center
- Transplant Center Task Force
- Transplant Coordinator
- Transplant Coordinators Committee
- Transplant date
- Transplant Episode Costs
- Transplant Financial Clearance
- Transplant hospital
- Transplant Hospital Member
- Transplant Hospital Patients
- Transplant Program
- Transplant Rate
- Transplant Recipient
- Transplant Recipient Follow-up Form
- Transplant Recipient Registration Form
- Transplant Referral
- Transplant Team
- Transplant, Autologous
- Transplantation
- Transplantation rate measure
- Transplantation, Allogenic (allograft)
- Transplantation, Autologous
- Trauma Code Development
- Treatment
- Treatment Options
- Tricare
- Tricare for Life (TFL)
- True Negatives
- Trust Fund
- Trust Fund Ratio
- Tt
- Two-way exchange
U
- U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act
- U.S. Standard Death Certificate
- UB-82
- UB-92
- Unacceptable antigens
- Unassigned Claim
- Uncontrolled DCD
- UNetSM
- Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
- Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)
- Uniform Brain Death Act
- Uniform Claim Task Force
- Uniform Determination of Death Act
- Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA)
- Unit Input Intensity Allowance
- United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Procedures and Practices for Administration, Commerce, and Transport
- United Nations Rules for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport
- United Network for Organ Sharing
- United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
- United States (U.S.) Public Health Service (PHS) Guideline
- United States Renal Data System
- United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
- Univariate Analysis
- UNOS
- Unplanned Mentions
- Upper Limb
- Uremia
- Urgently Needed Care
- Urinalysis (UA)
- Utah Health Information Network
- Utility and Justice
- Utilization Management (UM)
- Utilization Summary Data
V
- Validation
- Valuation Period
- Value-Added Network
- Variance
- Varices (esophageal)
- Vascular
- Vascularized
- Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA)
- Vascularized Composite Allograft/Allotransplantation
- Vascularized Composite Allograft/Allotransplantation (VCA)
- Ventilated Deaths
- Ventilator
- Ventricular Assist Device
- Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
- Ventricular Tachycardia
- Ventricular Tachycardia (V-Tach)
- Virtual Private Network
- Virus
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Voluntary Agreement
- Voluntary Enrollee
- Vote Granted the Transplant Hospital Member with Whom it is Associated. See Also Histocompatibility
- Voting Members
W
- Wait List
- Wait List (WL)
- Wait List Registration
- Waiting List
- Waiting List (or Waitlist)
- Waiting Period
- Waiting Time
- Waitlist Management Costs
- Waitlisted/Listed Active
- Waitlisted/Listed Inactive/on Hold
- Warm Ischemic Time
- Washington Publishing Company
- White paper
- Withdrawal
- Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment
- Withhold
- Workers Compensation
- Workforce
- Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
- World Health Organization