Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care (2012)
Chapter: Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ACA |
Affordable Care Act of 2010 [commonly used shortened version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010] |
| ACG |
adjusted clinical group |
| ACS |
American Community Survey |
| ADL |
activity of daily living |
| AGI |
adjusted gross income |
| AHRQ |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| ASEC |
Annual Social and Economic Supplement [to the Current Population Survey] |
| ASPE |
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation [in HHS] |
| BLS |
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| CBO |
Congressional Budget Office |
| CE |
Consumer Expenditure Survey |
| CHIP |
Children’s Health Insurance Program |
| CPS |
Current Population Survey |
| DB |
defined benefit |
| DC |
defined contribution |
| DCG |
diagnosis cost group form of risk adjustment system |
| FPL |
family poverty level |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 |
| HMO |
health maintenance organization |
| HRET |
Health Research and Education Trust |
| HRS |
Health and Retirement Study |
| HSA |
health savings account |
| HTHS |
Health Tracking Household Survey |
| IADL |
instrumental activity of daily living |
| IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
| IRA |
individual retirement account |
| ITWG |
Interagency Technical Working Group [on Developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure] |
| JSM |
Joint Statistical Meetings |
| LIHEAP |
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program |
| LTC |
long-term care |
| MCBS |
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey |
| MCER |
medical care economic risk |
| MEPS |
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey |
| MPS |
Medical Providers Survey |
| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
| NHIS |
National Health Interview Survey |
| NLTCS |
National Long Term Care Survey |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
| OMB |
U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| RxRisk |
risk adjustment system that uses information from automated outpatient pharmacy data systems to characterize chronic conditions |
| SCF |
Survey of Consumer Finances |
| SIPP |
Survey of Income and Program Participation |
| SNAP |
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [formerly Food Stamp Program] |
| SPM |
Supplemental Poverty Measure |
| SPR |
supplemental poverty rate |
| TANF |
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |
| TRIM3 |
Transfer Income Model, version 3 |
| WIC |
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children |
