Glossary

A serious condition where your body's loss of fluid is more than your body's intake of fluid.

See Assumptions.

Data that describe the characteristics of enrollee populations within a managed care entity. Demographic data include but are not limited to age, sex, race/ethnicity, and primary language.

Projects and contracts that CMS has signed with various health care organizations. These contracts allow CMS to test various or specific attributes such as payment methodologies, preventive care, social care, etc., and to determine if such projects/pilots should be continued or expanded to meet the health care needs of the Nation. Demonstrations are used to evaluate the effects and impact of various health care initiatives and the cost implications to the public.

An organization, hosted by the American Dental Association, that maintains the data content specifications for dental billing. The Dental Content Committee has a formal consultative role under HIPAA for all transactions affecting dental health care services.

DHHS administers many of the "social" programs at the Federal level dealing with the health and welfare of the citizens of the United States. (It is the "parent" of CMS.)

A subset from an original identifiable file.

The text defining a code in a code set.

A medical code set or an administrative code set that is required to be used by the adopted implementation specification for a standard transaction.

An organization which HHS has designated for oversight of the business data content of one or more of the HIPAA-mandated transaction standards.