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Browse hundreds of speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and feeding therapy abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms
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PnP
Policies and Procedures: Policies and procedures go hand-in-hand but are not interchangeable. A policy is a set of general guidelines that outline the organization’s plan for tackling an issue. Pol...
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...
SLD
Specific Learning Disability: Specific learning disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that begins during school-age, although it may not be recognized until adulthood. Learning disabilities ref...
SOAP note
Subjective, objective, assessment, plan note: The SOAP note (an acronym for subjective, objective, assessment, and plan) is a method of documentation employed by health care providers to write out ...
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 ...
TC
TennCare: TennCare is the state of Tennessee’s managed Medicaid agency. There are four health plans available to TennCare members: Amerigroup, BlueCare, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, and TennCar...
TEIDS
Tennessee's Early Intervention Data System: The data system used to manage the TEIS (Tennessee's Early Intervention System) program and children in the program.
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.
Tx
Therapy: A therapy is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis.
UHC-C
United Healthcare (Commercial): United Health Care has a Commercial Policy and a TennCare Policy, this refers to the Commercial Policy.
Well visit
Well-check visit: A well-check visit, also called an annual physical or check-up, is a preventative measure and a time for communication with your physician. According to the Journal of Family Prac...
WO
Write off: A write-off is a reduction of the recognized value of something. In accounting, this is a recognition of the reduced or zero value of an asset. In income tax statements, this is a reduct...
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