Category: U

An Internet (The Net) resource consisting of many online discussion forums about topics ranging from the mundane to the sublime, occasionally prompting some to include ridiculous to the description of topics discussed. Because of the high volume involved, not all Internet service providers choose to make all forums available to their subscribers. Forum messages travel…

A sort of competitor of an emergency department, but presumably for less “emergent” problems. The term has no legal (or regulatory) definition as yet. Sometimes it is stated that a facility, to be called an “urgent care center,” must have certain laboratory and X-ray services, but must not hold itself out as ready for emergencies…

Changing the coding of a patient’s diagnoses (and perhaps operations) in order to obtain a higher payment for the services rendered. More accurately called “updassifying”.  

Tax paid by a nonprofit corporation on the profits of activities which are not related to the nonprofit purpose of the corporation. A nonprofit corporation is normally exempt from taxation, but may engage in profit-making activities and pay taxes on those, while preserving its tax-exempt status, by complying with specific federal tax law requirements regarding…

The official name for a site or address of a resource on the Internet. Resources include home pages, graphic images, text files, and digitized sights and sounds (such as movies).  

A medical record (file) in which are kept the records of all hospitalizations of the individual. This is the preferred method of filing of medical records.  

Reporting of patient care information, financial information, or both under uniform definitions (and sometimes formats) in order to permit comparisons among hospitals or physicians.  

Submission of a patient’s bill with diagnosis or operation coding which will result in a smaller reimbursement than the patient’s condition and the care rendered would actually justify. Computer systems which are intended to prevent this are commercially available to health care providers. Compare to over-coding and optimal coding.  

Selling individual components of a service or product separately rather than as a package. Sometimes unbundling is done for the convenience of the customer, but often it is done in order to sell the same components for a greater total price than if they were packaged together (bundled). For example, a complete automobile can be…

Images (pictures) of internal body structures, produced by recording (via computer) the sounds wave reflected from the body structures.