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Browse hundreds of speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and feeding therapy abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms
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IFSP
Individualized Family Service Plan: An IFSP is a plan that guides and supports your efforts to boost your child’s development up to age 3.
LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker: These professionals work in a wide variety of settings to provide emotional support, mental health evaluations, therapy and case management services to people exper...
LEA
Local Educational Agency: Local educational agency or LEA means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or directi...
MCO
Managed Care Organization: A managed care organization is a health care provider or a group or organization of medical service providers who offers managed care health plans.
MD
Medical Doctor: A health professional who practices medicine, who is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, inju...
MFS
Medicare Fee Schedule: A fee schedule is a complete listing of fees used by Medicare to pay doctors or other providers/suppliers.
MSN
Medicare Summary Notice: It explains what the provider billed for, the Medicare-approved amount, how much Medicare paid, and what the patient owes.
NPI
National Provider ID: Healthcare providers acquire their unique 10-digit NPIs to identify themselves in a standard way throughout their industry.
NSF
National Standard Format: Generically, this applies to any nationally standardized data format, but it is often used in a more limited way to designate the Professional EMC NSF, a 320-byte flat fil...
OHI
Other Health Impairments: An umbrella term, “other health impairment” (OHI) encompasses a range of conditions.
OIG
Office of Inspector General: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is the largest inspector general's office in the Federal Government, with approximately 1,600 w...
OT
Occupational Therapy: Occupational therapy (OT) is a global healthcare profession. It involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or ...
PA
Physician's Assistant: PAs (physician associates/physician assistants) are licensed clinicians who practice medicine in every specialty and setting.
PCP
Primary Care Physician: A primary care physician is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical cond...
PLI
Professional Liability Insurance: Professional liability insurance is a policy that helps cover a mistake made by your business or a wrongful act attributable to your company. Professional liabilit...
POS
Place of Service: Place of Service Codes are two-digit codes placed on health care professional claims to indicate the setting in which a service was provided.
PPO
Preferred Provider Organization: A type of health plan that contracts with medical providers, such as hospitals and doctors, to create a network of participating providers. You pay less if you use ...
PT
Physical Therapy: Physical therapy (PT) is care that aims to ease pain and help you function, move, and live better. You may need it to relieve pain, improve movement or agility, or to prevent or r...
SC
Service Coordinator: The TEIS service coordinator is one of our contact points at TEIS. The service coordinator works at TEIS to scheduling appointments with parents to complete assessment on child...
ST
Speech Therapy: Speech therapy is treatment that helps improve your speech and language skills. It helps with early language skills, voice and sound production, comprehension, fluency, clarity and ...
TEIS
Tennessee's Early Intervention System: Tennessee's Early Intervention System is a voluntary educational program for families with children birth through age two / three with disabilities or develop...
TPA
Third Party Administrator: A third-party administrator is an organization that processes insurance claims or certain aspects of employee benefit plans for a separate entity.
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