Definition of Terms

Definition of Terms

Definition of Terms

AMR

The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR or AMR-NB) audio codec is a patented audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. AMR was adopted as the standard speech codec by 3GPP in October 1998 and is now widely used in GSM and UMTS. It uses link adaptation to select from one of eight different bit rates based on link conditions.

CMR

A certified medical record, CMR is a systematic documentation of a patient's medical history and care. The term CMR is used both for the physical folder for each individual patient and for the body of information which comprises the total of each patient's health history. Medical records are intensely personal documents and there are many ethical and legal issues surrounding them such as the degree of third-party access and appropriate storage and disposal. Although medical records are traditionally compiled and stored by health care providers, personal health records maintained by individual patients have become more popular in recent years.

c.CMS

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs

CMS-1500

The Health Insurance Claim Form (CMS-1500) is used by Allied Health professionals, physicians, laboratories and pharmacies to bill supplies and services to the Medi-Cal program. Providers are required to purchase CMS-1500 claim forms from a vendor. Claim forms ordered through vendors must include red “drop-out” ink.

CMS implemented a new CMS1500 (08-05) claim form on June 1, 2007. The major difference between the new CMS1500 (08-05) form and the prior CMS1500 (12-90) form is the split provider identifier fields. The split fields enable NPI reporting in the fields labeled as NPI, and corresponding legacy number reporting in the unlabeled block above each NPI field.

CPT

CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes are numbers assigned to every task and service a medical practitioner may provide to a patient including medical, surgical and diagnostic services. They are then used by insurers to determine the amount of reimbursement that a practitioner will receive by an insurer. Since everyone uses the same codes to mean the same thing, they ensure uniformity. It should be noted, however, that uniformity in understanding what the service is, and ...