Annual Statistical Supplement, 2009
Abbreviations
- ACR
- Adjusted Community Rate
- AFDC
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- AIME
- Average indexed monthly earnings
- AMW
- Average monthly wage
- APTD
- Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled
- BBA
- Balanced Budget Act of 1997
- CDR
- Continuing disability review
- CHAMPVA
- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- CHIP
- Children's Health Insurance Program
- CLIA
- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
- CMP
- Competitive medical plans
- CMS
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- COLA
- Cost-of-living adjustment
- CPI-U
- Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
- CPI-W
- Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
- CPS
- Current Population Survey
- DA&A
- Drug addiction and alcoholism
- DI
- Disability Insurance
- DOL
- Department of Labor
- DRA
- Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
- DRG
- Diagnosis-related group
- DSH
- Disproportionate share hospital
- EPSDT
- Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program
- ESRD
- End-stage renal disease
- FDA
- Food and Drug Administration
- FICA
- Federal Insurance Contributions Act
- FMAP
- Federal medical assistance percentage
- FPL
- Federal poverty level
- FQHC
- Federally qualified health center
- FRA
- Full retirement age
- FUTA
- Federal Unemployment Tax Act
- GDP
- Gross domestic product
- GPO
- Government Pension Offset
- HCFA
- Health Care Financing Administration
- HHA
- Home health agency
- HHS
- Department of Health and Human Services
- HI
- Hospital Insurance
- HMO
- Health maintenance organization
- ICFs/MR
- Intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded
- IRS
- Internal Revenue Service
- LIS
- Low-income subsidy
- MA
- Medicare Advantage
- MBC
- Monthly benefit credited
- MBR
- Master Beneficiary Record
- MIP
- Medicare Integrity Program
- MMA
- Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act
- MN
- Medically needy
- MSA
- Medical savings account
- NRC
- National Research Council
- OASDI
- Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
- OASI
- Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
- OBRA
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
- PACE
- Programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly
- PDP
- Prescription Drug Plan
- PIA
- Primary insurance amount
- PPO
- Preferred provider organization
- PPS
- Prospective payment system
- PRO
- Peer review organization
- PSO
- Provider-sponsored organization
- QC
- Quarter of coverage
- QDWI
- Qualified disabled working individual
- QI
- Qualifying individual
- QIO
- Quality improvement organization
- QMB
- Qualified Medicare beneficiary
- RDS
- Retiree Drug Subsidy
- RVS
- Relative value scale
- SCHIP
- State Children's Health Insurance Program
- SECA
- Self-Employment Contributions Act
- SGA
- Substantial gainful activity
- SLMB
- Specified low-income Medicare beneficiary
- SMI
- Supplementary Medical Insurance
- SNF
- Skilled nursing facility
- SSA
- Social Security Administration
- SSI
- Supplemental Security Income
- TANF
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- TDI
- Temporary Disability Insurance
- VA
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- VEAP
- Veterans' Educational Assistance Program
- WEP
- Windfall Elimination Provision