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'P' Terms

This page lists government terms starting with 'P'

P:

Process

P&E:

Parenteral & Enteral

P&T:

Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic

P/B:

Provider / Beneficiary

P/N:

Part Number

P2:

Pollution Prevention; Pollution Prevention Framework

PA:

Privacy Act; Privacy Act of 1974; Project Assessment

PAC:

Patient Assessment Computerized (System); Personal Access Code; Political Action Committee; PreAdmission Certification; Premium Amount Collectible; Products of Ambulatory Care; Professional & Administrative Careers; Professional, Administrative, Clerical; Project Account Code

PACE:

Pharmaceutical Assistance Program; Planning, Assigning, Controlling & Evaluating System; Professional & Administrative Career Examination; Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly

PACEMKR:

Pacemaker System

PACO:

Principal Administrative Contracting Officer

PACS:

Patient Care & Services

PAG:

Pesticide Assignment Guidelines; Policy Advisory Group

PAH:

Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PAHP:

Prepaid Ambulatory Health Plan

PAL:

Patient Accounting Language (IBM software); Performance Audit Inspection (CWA); Pure Active Ingredient compound; Provider Audit List

PALT:

Procurement Action Lead Time

PAM:

Pesticide Analytical Manual; Priority Audit Memorandum; Project Administration Manual

PAMS:

Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations

PANAPT:

(APCSS Automated Production Turnover software)

PANVALET:

(APCSS source code management software)

PAO:

Procurement Assistance Office; Property Accountable Officer

PARD:

Provider Audit & Reimbursement Department

PARL:

Physician/Supplier Assignment Rate List

PART A:

Medicare Hospital Insurance

PART B:

Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance

PAS:

PreAward Survey; Premium Accrual Stop; Professional Activity Study; Public Appearances Staff, OPA

PASARR:

Preadmission Screening & Annual Resident Review

PASS:

Policy Access Support System; Procurement Automatic Source System

PAT:

Permit Assistance Team (RCRA); Planning Action Team

PATCO:

Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical Other

PATHVU:

Path View

PATS:

Pesticide Action Tracking System; Pesticides Analytical Transport Solution

PAYERID:

Payer Identification (national provider identifier initiative)

Pb:

Lead

PBA:

Part B Advisory; Pharmacy Benefit Administrator; Preliminary Benefit Analysis (BEAD)

PBC:

Premium Billing Code

PBGC:

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

PBIS:

PerformanceBased Incentive System

PBMS:

Pharmacy Benefit Managers

PBO:

Payment Bill Option

PBP:

Plan Benefit Package; Provider Based Physician

PBR:

Process Bill Register

PBS:

Public Buildings Service

PBSC:

Performance Base Service Contracting

PBX:

Private Branch Exchange

PC:

Partnership Council; Procurement Cycle; Professional Component; Project Coordinator

PCA:

Physical Configuration Audit; Physicians Comparability Allowance; Principle Certification Authority; Principle Component Analysis; Private Collection Agency; Progressive Corrective Action

PCAM:

Punch Card Accounting Machines

PCAS:

Patient Care Algorithm

PCB:

Polychlorinated Biphenyl

PCC:

Per Capita Cost (System)

PCCM:

Primary Care Case Management

PCCMP:

Primary Care Case Management Provider

PCD:

Premium Conversion Date

PCDB:

Provider/Contractor Data Base

PCE:

Perchloroethylene; Personal Care Expenditures

PCH:

Primary Care Hospital

PCIE:

President's Council on Integrity & Efficiency

PCM:

Phase Contrast Microscopy

PCMD:

Procurement and Contracts Management Division

PCMI:

President's Council on Management Improvement

PCN:

Policy Criteria Notice

PCO:

Pest Control Operator; Procurement Contracting Officer; Procuring Contracting Officer (pre-award)

PCP:

Primary Care Physician (or Provider)

PCPR:

Provider Claims Processing Requirements

PCR:

Private Consumer Rate; Procurement Center Representative; Procurement Center Representative, Small Business; Prospective Composite Rate

PCRP:

Per Capita Rate Payment

PCRS:

(Carrier) Performance Control Reporting System

PCS:

Permanent Change of Station; Position Classification Standard

PCSC:

Personal Computer Site Corrdinator

PCSD:

President's Council on Sustainable Development

PCT:

Project Coordination Team

PCYA:

Presidential Classroom for Young Americans

PD:

Physical Database; Position Description; Premium Deducted; Process Description; Program Development

PD2:

(PD Squared) Procurement Desktop Defense (aka SPS)

PDA:

Personal Digital Assistant; Premium Due Amount

PDBO:

Public Disability Benefit Offset

PDCI:

Product Data Call-In

PDD:

Physical Database Design; Preliminary Design Document; Presidential Decision Directive

PDD63:

Presidential Decision Directive #63

PDE:

Prescription Drug Event

PDED:

(same as PDD directly above)

PDF:

Portable Document Format; Program Development Facility

PDFS:

Prescription Drug Front-End System

PDLO:

Printing & Distribution Liaison Officer

PDM:

Parallel Development Manager; Personalized Documentation Manager; Program Decision Memorandum

PDMA:

Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1988

PDOA:

Preliminary Design and Options Analysis Phase (DOTS)

PDOTH:

Prior Date of Termination of Hospital Insurance

PDP:

Prescription Drug Plan; Private Prescription Drug Plan; Program Decision Package

PDR:

Physician's Desk Reference

PDS:

Partitioned Data Set; Peer (Review Organization) Data System

PDSC:

Phased-Down State Contribution

PDT:

Physical Design Team

PDV:

Program Data Vector

PE:

Performance Evaluation; Post Entitlement; Procurement Executive; Program Evaluation

PEB:

Performance Evaluation Board; Performance Evaluation Board (contracts)

PEBES:

(SSA) Personal Earnings & Benefit Estimate Statement; Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement

PEBS:

Personal Earnings & Benefit Statement

PEBTAG:

Provider Electronic Billing Technical Advisory Group

PEC:

Performance Engineering Corp. (SAIC subcontractor); Procurement Executive Council

PECOS:

Provider Enrollment, Chain & Ownership System

PED:

Project Engineering Development

PEI:

Postentitlement Internet (MBR Query)

PEL:

(OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limits

PENVAL:

Post Entitlement Notices Validations (SSA)

PEO:

Program Executive Officer

PEP:

Partial Episode Payment; Partnerships in Education Program; Performance Evaluation Program; Proposal Evaluation Plan

PEPP:

Payment Error Prevention Program

PEPPER:

Post Entitlement Premium Payment & Enrollment Program (SSA)

PERS:

Performance and Environmental Results System

PERT:

Program Evaluation & Review Technique

PERVU:

Practice Expense Relative Value Units

PESO:

Post Entitlement Scheduling Operation (SSA); Post Entitlement System Operation (SSA)

PET:

Positron Emission Tomography; Provider Education & Training; Provider Evaluation & Training

PETS:

Problem & Enhancement Tracking System (GHP)

PETT:

Position Emission Transverse Tomography

PEW:

PRO Efficiency Workgroup

PFC:

Perfluorated Carbon

PFCRA:

Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act

PFF:

Physician Fee Freeze

PFFS:

Private FeeForService Plan; Private Fee-For-Service Plan

PGP:

Pretty Good Privacy

PH:

Partial Hospitalization

PHA's:

Public Housing Agencies

PHC:

Principal Hazardous Constituent

PHCE:

Personal Health Care Expenditures

PHCP:

Prepaid Health Care Plan

PHDDS:

PRO Hospital Discharge Data Set

PHEC:

PostHospital Extended Care

PHHH:

PostHospital Home Health

PHI:

Personal Health Information; Pre-Harvest Interval; Premium Hospital Insurance; Protected Health Information

PHIC:

Partnership for Health Insurance Counseling

PHIP:

Pharmacist's Incentive Program

PHOS:

Post Hospital Outcome Study

PHP:

Partial Hospitalization Program; Prepaid Health Plan

PHPO:

Prepaid Health Plan Option; Private Health Plan Option

PHR:

Professional in Human Resources

PHRMA:

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Researchers of America

PHS:

Public Health Service

PHSA:

Public Health Service Act

PHTP:

Priority Health Training Programs

PHUS:

Payment History Update System

PHY/SUP:

Physician/Supplier

PI:

Penalty Indicator; Performance Indicator; Preliminary Injunction; Program Information; Productivity Investment; Program Integrity; Project Initiation

PIA:

Primary Insured Amount (MBR)

PIC:

Policy Information Center (DHHS); PRO Intermediary Carrier; Products of Incomplete Combustion; Program Information Coordinator

PICC:

Peripherally-inserted central catheter

PICS:

Plan Information Control System; Program Information Control System

PID:

Payer Identification System; Program Inspections Division, OIG; Project Idea Document

PIDS:

People or Individual with Disabilities (aka POIWD)

PIE:

Post Implementation Evaluation

PIG:

Program Integrity Group, OFM, CMS

PIGS:

Pesticides in Groundwater Strategy

PIHP:

Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan

PIIN:

Procurement Instrument Identification Number

PIIS:

Program Instructions Issuance System

PIM:

Personal Information Manager

PIMR:

Program Integrity Management Reporting

PIMS:

Pesticide Incident Monitoring System

PIN:

1) Personal Identification Number 2) Procurement Initiation Notice; Personal Identification Number; Pesticide Information Network; Physician Identification Number; PreInvitation Notice; Primary Insured Number (MBR); Procurement Information Notice; Provider Identification Number

PINQ:

Premium Inquiry

PIP:

Performance Improvement Plan; Periodic Interim Payment; Physician Incentive Plan; Productivity Improvement Program; Projects in Progress; Public Involvement Program

PIPC:

Public Information Program Circular

PIPDCG:

Principal Inpatient Diagnostic Cost Group

PIPQUIC:

Program Integration Project Queries Used in Interactive Command

PIR:

Periodic Interim Reimbursement; Post Implementation Review

PIRG:

Public Interest Research Group

PIRT:

Pretreatment Implementation Review Task Force

PIT:

Permit Improvement Team; Process Improvement Team (ALJ)

PITS:

PRO Information Tracking System; Project Information Tracking System

PJS:

Personal Job Scheduler

PKI:

Public Key Infrastructure

PKIX:

Public Key Infrastructure X.509

PL:

Performance Level; Proposed Legislation; Public Law

PL99-474:

Computer Fraud & Abuse Act of 1986

PLAN:

Plain Language Action Network; Protection for Long Term Assistance Needs

PLANNET:

Plan Network

PLIRRA:

Pollution Liability Insurance and Risk Retention Act

PLM:

Polarized Light Microscopy

PLT:

Production Lead Time

PLUVUE:

Plume Visibility Model

PM:

Particulate Matter; post meridiem; Procedure Manual; Program Management; Program Manager; Program Memoranda; Project Manager

PM/PM:

Per Member/Per Month

PM10:

Particulate Matter (nominally 10m and less)

PM15:

Particulate Matter (nominally 15m and less)

PM2.5:

Particulate Matter Smaller than 2.5 Micrometers in Diameter

PMA:

PreMarket Approval; Prior Month Accrual

PMAS:

Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations

PMBOK:

Project Management Body of Knowledge

PMC:

Patient Management Categories

PMCS:

Program Management Control System; Project Management Collection System

PME:

Partial Month Eligible (Medicaid); Prior Month Ending

PMEL:

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

PMI:

Project Management Institute

PMIS:

Program Management Information System; PSRO Management Information System

PMMIS:

Program Management & Medical Information System

PMN:

Pre-Manufacture Notices; Premanufacture Notification

PMNF:

Premanufacture Notification Form

PMO:

Project Management Office; Property Management Officer

PMP:

Preventive Maintenance Program; Project Management Plan

PM-PET:

Program ManagementProvider Education & Training

PMR:

Pollutant Mass Rate; Proportionate Mortality Ratio

PMRS:

Performance Management & Recognition System; Performance Management & Recognition systems (formerly Merit Pay); Performance Management and Recognition System; Performance Management Rating System

PMS:

Payment Management System; Personnel Manual for Supervisors (SSA); Program Management System; Property Management System

PMSA:

(BLSC) Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area

PMSB:

Program Management Support Branch

PMTT:

Programmable Magnetic Tape Terminal (or Transmission)

PN:

Part Number

PNA:

Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PNM:

Price Negotiation Memorandum

PO:

(1) Purchase Order (2) Project Officer (Contracting Officer Representative); Post Office; Privacy Officer; Procurement Office; Project Officer; Purchase Order

POAM:

Plan of Action & Milestones; Plan of Action and Milestones

POC:

Patterns of Care; Plan of Care; Plan of Correction; Point Of Compliance; Point of Contact; Principal Operating Component

POCI:

Physician Ownership/Compensation Interest

POE:

Plan of Expenditures; Point Of Exposure

POGO:

Privately-Owned/ Government-Operated

POHC:

Principal Organic Hazardous Constituent

POI:

Point Of Interception; Program Office Interface

POIWD:

People or Individuals with Disabilities (aka PIDS)

POL:

Physician Office Laboratories

POLREP:

Pollution Report

POM:

Particulate Organic Matter; Polycyclic Organic Matter

POMS:

Program Operations Manual System (SSA) (formerly Claims Manual CM))

POP:

(1) Period of Performance (2) Place of Performance; Persistent Organic Pollutant

POR:

Print/Utility Owning Region; Program of Requirements; Provider Overpayment Recovery; Provider Overpayment Report

PORA:

Principal Official Responsible for Acquisition

PORS:

Provider Overpayment Recovery System; Provider Overpayment Reporting System

PORT:

Patient Outcome Research Team (or Treatment)

PORTS:

Patient Outcome Research Teams

POS:

Place of Service; Point of Sale; Point of Service; Provider of Service(s) (System)

POSIX:

Portable Operating System Interface Exchange

POT:

Plan of Treatment

POTW:

Publicly Owned Treatment Works

POV:

Privately Owned Vehicle

POW/MP:

Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel

PP:

Program Planning; Project Plan; Prospective Payment

PP&A:

Plan Performance & Assistance

PPA:

Planned Program Accomplishment; Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 13101); Premium Paid Amount

PPAC:

Practicing Provider Advisory Council; Prospective Payment Assessment Commission

PPAS:

Presidentially Appointed - Senate Confirmed

PPB:

Parts Per Billion; Planning, Programming, Budgeting

PPC:

Processing Payment Cycle

PPD:

Procurement Planning Document

PPE:

Personal Protective Equipment

PPG:

Performance Partnership Grant; Primary Care Physician Groups

PPI:

Producer Price Index

PPIC:

Pesticide Programs Information Center

PPIS:

Pesticide Product Information System; Pollution Prevention Incentives for States

PPL:

Potentially Penalty Liable

PPLS:

Policy Planning Liaison Staff

PPM:

Parts Per Million

PPM/PPB:

Parts per million/ parts per billion

PPMAP:

Power Planning Modeling Application Procedure

PPN:

Procurement Planning Notice

PPNA:

Program Planning & Needs Analysis

PPO:

Preferred Provider Organization

PPP:

Preference Procurement Program; Production Program Profile

PPPRs:

Planning Purpose Procurement Requests (PPN 93-04)

PPR IMI:

Physician Payment Reform Impact Monitoring Initiative

PPR:

Physician Payment Reform; Prospective Payment Review

PPRC:

Physician Payment Review Commission

PPRMS:

Physician Payment Review Monitoring System

PPRTF:

Physician Payment Reform Task Force

PPS:

Prepayment Screen; Primitive Process Specification; Proposed Price Setting; Prospective Payment System; Prospective Payment System (Medicare Part A); Prospective Pricing System

PPSMS:

Printing & Paper Stock Management System

PPSP:

Physician's Primary Sponsor Plan; Power Plant Siting Program

PPSSCC:

President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control

PPT:

Parts Per Trillion

PPTH:

Parts Per Thousand

PPV:

Pharmaceutical Prime Vendor

PPWY:

Productivity Per Work Year

PQE:

Prior Quarter Ending

PQUA:

Preliminary Quantitative Usage Analysis

PR:

Peer Review; Pesticide Regulation Notice; Preliminary Review; Procurement Request; Program Requirement; Purchase (or Procurement) Request

PRA:

Paperwork Reduction Act ; Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980; Paperwork Reduction Act; Planned Regulatory Action; Per Resident Amount; Percent Reactive Antibody

PRACP:

Project Review and Coordination Panel

PRAF:

Physician Reviewer Assignment Format

PRATS:

Pesticides Regulatory Action Tracking System

PRB:

Payment Record Batch; Performance Review Board

PRC:

Planning Research Corporation; Postal Rate Commission

PRCP:

Project Review & Coordination Panel

PRENT:

Prior Entitlement Program (HDPRENT)

PRES:

Policy Review & Evaluation Staff

PRG:

Performance Recognition Group

PRI:

Periodic Reinvestigation; Procurement Request Information

PRICER:

(PPS pricing software for inpatient stays system)

PRISM:

Project to Redesign Information Systems Management (begun in 1984, ended in 1991 when funding expired)

PRM:

Prevention Reference Manuals; Provider Reimbursement Manual

PRMDS:

Provider Minimum Data Set

PRN:

Pesticide Registration Notice

PRO:

Peer Review Organization (renamed to QIO); Principal Regional Official; Professional Review Organization

PRO/FI:

Professional Review Organization / Fiscal Intermediary

PROM:

Protocol for Regional Office Monitoring

PROMPTS:

Peer Review Organization Monitoring Protocol & Tracking System

PROPAC:

Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (Task Force)

PRP:

Potentially Responsible Parties; Potentially Responsible Party; Prospective Reimbursement Plan; Provider Reimbursement Profile

PRPD:

Payment Reform Policy Development

PRRA:

Paperwork Reduction Reauthorization Act

PRRB:

Provider Reimbursement Review Board

PRS:

Parameter Release Study; Payment Reconciliation System; Prepayment Review System

PRUCOL:

Permanently Residing Under Color of Law

PRVSF:

Provider Summary File

PRZM:

Pesticide Root Zone Model

PS:

Physician Sequential; Point Source

PS&E TAG:

Performance Standards & Evaluation Technical Advisory Group

PS&E:

Performance Standards & Evaluation

PS&RR:

Provider Statistical & Reimbursement Report

PSA:

PreSolicitation Announcement; Problem Statement Analysis; Public Service Announcement

PSAF:

Physician/Supplier Action File

PSAM:

Point Source Ambient Monitoring

PSC:

Produce Service Code; Product & Service Code; Program Safeguard (or Safety) Contractor; Program Service Center (SSA) (formerly Payment Center (PC)); Program Site Coordinator; Program Support Center (DHHS); Program Support Center (Health and Human Services); Public Service Commission

PSD:

Prevention of Significant Deterioration; Program Systems Division

PSES:

Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources

PSF:

Provider Specific File

PSGH:

Policy Standards & Guidelines Handbook

PSI:

Pollutant Standards Index; Pounds Per Square Inch; Pressure Per Square Inch; Problem Source Identification

PSIG:

Pressure Per Square Inch Gauge

PSL:

Problem Statement Language

PSM:

Physician Summary Master; Point Source Monitoring

PSNS:

Pretreatment Standards for New Sources

PSO:

Physician Security Officer; Provider Sponsored Organization; Provider-Sponsored Organization

PSOR:

Physician & Supplier Overpayment Report; Physician Supplier Overpayment Recovery; Provider Statistical & Overpayment Report

PSP:

Provider/Supplier Service Plan

PSPRICE:

Physician Fee Schedule System

PSR:

Proposal Submission Requirements; Provider Statistics & Reimbursement Report (aka PS&R); Provider Summary Report

PSRB:

Performance Standards Review Board

PSRO:

Performance Standards Review Organization; Physician Service Review Organization

PSRS:

Provider Statistical & Reimbursement System

PSS:

Packet Switch Service (FTS2000); Programed Symbol Set (board)

PSU:

Primary Sampling Unit

PT:

Processing Time; Proficiency Testing

PTA:

Part A (of Medicare); Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty; Point of Total Assumption; Prior To Admission

PTAC:

Premium Target Advisory Commission

PTAG:

Program Training Advisory Group

PTAMUS:

Part A Medicare Utilization System

PTAPTT:

Part A Processing Times Tabulation

PTB:

Part B (of Medicare)

PTDIS:

Single Stack Meteorological Model in EPA UNAMAP Series

PTE:

Potential to Emit

PTFE:

Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon)

PTMAX:

Single Stack Meteorological Model in EPA UNAMAP series

PTO:

(U.S.) Patent &Trademark Office; Patent and Trademark Office

PTOD:

Policy, Training, and Oversight Division

PTP:

Performance Test Platform (PRISM); Portable Training Package; Proficiency Testing Program

PTPLU:

Point Source Gaussian Diffusion Model

PTS:

Provider Terminal System

PU/ME/DE:

Public Use / Medical Effectiveness / Demonstration & Evaluation

PUC:

Public Utilities Commission; Public Utility Commission

PUDI:

Prior Unqualifing Disabled Indicator (also RISI)

PUF:

Public Use Files

PUFF:

Proposed Uses of Federal Funds

PUFS:

Public Use Files System

PUP:

Provider Update Operation

PUT:

Payment Update Transaction (MBR)

PV:

Performance Value; Present Value; Project Verification

PVA:

Priority Value Assessment; Project Valuation Assessment

PVB:

Provider Bills

PVC:

Permanent Virtual Circuit; Polyvinyl Chloride

PW:

Project Workbench; Public Welfare

PWB:

Printed Wiring Board

PWBA:

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration; Pension Welfare & Benefits Administration

PWD:

Persons With Disabilities

PWS:

Payment Withhold System; Performance Work Standard; Public Water Supply/ System

PWSS:

Public Water Supply System

PX:

Post Exchange

PY:

Prior Year

PYE:

Prior Year Ending