Glossary of Healthcare Terms

Short-term acute care hospitals that are located at least 35 miles from like hospitals in rural areas, located 25 miles from other similar hospitals and have fewer than 25% of its patients admitted to similar hospitals, located 25 miles from other similar hospitals and fewer than 50 beds, or are at least 45 minutes from the nearest like hospital.

Practices owned and operated by only one healthcare practitioner.

A hospital that limits its focus and scope of services to provide treatment for a single medical specialty or cluster of specialties (e.g., surgical, pediatric, or women's care).

A hospital that limits its focus and scope of services to provide treatment for a single medical specialty or cluster of specialties (e.g., surgical, pediatric, or women's care).

Data specific to, and obtained from, the subject entities. Specific data includes, but is not limited to financial statements; tax returns; productivity reports; supplies inventory; accounts receivable schedules; fixed asset schedules; prior valuation or consulting reports; budgets and projections; and, documentation on transactions involving the subject entity.

Data specific to, and obtained from, the sources at each subject enterprise. Specific research may include, but is not limited to financial statements; tax returns; productivity reports; supplies inventory; accounts receivable schedules; fixed asset schedules; prior valuation or consulting reports; budgets and projections; and, documentation on transactions involving the subject entity.

Speech-language pathologists assess patients in order to diagnose a variety of speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing conditions.

Also known as chiropractic adjustment, this is the main treatment technique used by chiropractors and involves manually applying controlled force into joints to restore mobility.

An HMO that employs physicians and other providers who treat only the particular HMOs enrollees.

Originally developed in the 1930s, SIC codes are one to four digits in length and employed for classifying the type of industry under which a business primarily operates. Currently still used by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The identification of the type of value being used in a specific engagement (for example, fair market value, fair value, or investment value).

A Federal law prohibiting physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to an entity for designated health services if the physician, or an immediate family member, has a financial relationship with that entity.

A state established marketplace through which low and moderate-income individuals and families, and employees of small businesses, will receive premium and cost-sharing subsidies in an effort to make private health insurance coverage more affordable.

Unspecialized cells capable of (1) renewing themselves through cell division, sometimes after long periods of inactivity and (2) specializing to a certain type of tissue or organ under the proper conditions.

Is a highly precise procedure involving the single, high-dose delivery of precisely-targeted gamma-ray or x-ray beams that is used in different parts of the body, but most frequently to treat brain tumors.