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| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 |
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| Accountable Care Organization |
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| Activities of daily living |
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| American Hospital Association (Heart and Health count too, but not in our context) |
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| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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| Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
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| American Medical Association |
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| American Osteopathic Association |
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| Ambulatory payment classification |
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| Congressional Budget Office |
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| Continuing-care retirement community |
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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| Children's Health Insurance Program |
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| Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
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| Computerized physician-order entry |
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| Current procedural terminology |
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| Department of Health and Human Services |
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| Durable Medical Equipment |
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| Electronic Health Record or Electronic Medical Record |
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| Food and Drug Administration |
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| High-deductible health plan |
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| Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set |
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| Home health resource group |
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| Hospital insurance (in Medicare) |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
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| Human immunodeficiency virus |
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| Health maintenance organization |
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| Health reimbursement arrangement |
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| Health technology assessment |
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| Instrumental activities of daily living |
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| Intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded |
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| Integrated delivery system |
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| International Health Regulations |
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| Independent practice association |
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| Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; AKA The Joint Commission |
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| Long-term care hospital or Long-term acute care hospital |
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| Licensed vocational nurse |
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| Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan |
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| Managed Care Organization |
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| Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging |
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| Metropolitan statistical area |
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| National Committee for Quality Assurance |
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| Nursing facility (certification) |
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| National Institutes of Health |
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| Outcomes and Assessment Information Set |
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| Outpatient prospective payment system |
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| Stand-alone prescription drug plan |
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| Personal emergency response system |
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| Physician-hospital organization |
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| Preferred provider organization |
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| Prospective payment system |
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| Resource-based relative value scale |
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| Resource utilization group |
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| Severe acute respiratory syndrome |
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| Supplementary medical insurance (in Medicare) |
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| Supplemental Security Income |
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| Usual, customary, and reasonable (charges) |
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| Department of Veterans Affairs |
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