ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS/FORM TITLES

REVISED: 02/01/2006

ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS/FORM TITLES

Federal IRS/TIN #	Tax Number
Form 372-118	Medicaid Request for Prior Approval
FY	Fiscal Year
GS	General Statutes
HCFA-1500	Form used by certain providers such as physicians to submit Medicaid and Medical Eye Care Program Claims.
HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HMO	Health Maintenance organization
ICD-9-CM	International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification
ICN	Internal control number assigned to a claim by EDS
ILR	Independent Living Rehabilitation
ILS	Independent Living Services
IMC	Income Maintenance Caseworker
INS	Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the Bureau Of Citizenship & Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security
IRA	Individual Retirement Account
I&R	Information and Referral
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
I-94	When temporary I-551 stamp affixed, proves not illegal alien.
I-551	Permanent Resident Card “Green Card” proves legal status
IV-D	Child Support Enforcement
LVA	Low Vision Aid
M-AA	Medical Assistance to the Aged
M-AB	Medical Assistance to the Blind
M-AD	Medical Assistance to the Disabled
MA	Medical Assistance
M.D.	Doctor of Medicine
MEC	Medical Eye Care
MID	Medicaid Identification Number
MPW	Medicaid for Pregnant Women
MR	Mentally Retarded
MQB	Medicare Qualified Beneficiary
N/A	Not Applicable
NECC	Nursing Eye Care Consultant
NCAC	North Carolina Administrative Code
NDC #	National Drug Code Number
NCDSS	(State) Division of Social Services
NCGS	North Carolina General Statutes
OAH	Office of Administrative Hearings
OD	Right Eye
O.D.	Doctor of Optometry
O&M	Orientation and Mobility
QMB	see MQB
OS	Left Eye

ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS/FORM TITLES

POA	Power of Attorney
RA	(Remittance Advice) refers to Medicaid Remittance and Status Report
REOMB	Recipient Explanation of Medicaid Benefits form
RP	Retinitis Pigmentosa
RR	Railroad Retirement
RSDI	Retirement, Survivors, Disability Insurance
Rx	Medical prescription
SAVE	Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement Programs
SDX	State Data Exchange
SFY	State Fiscal Year
SSA	Social Security Administration
SSI	Supplemental Security Income
SSN	Social Security Number
SWB	Social Worker for the Blind
T/C	Telephone Call
TANF	Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (called Work First Family Assistance or WFFA in N.C.)
UI	Unemployment Insurance
UV-400	Ultra Violet protective lens
VA	Veterans Administration
VR	Vocational Rehabilitation, Division of
WFFA	Work First Family Assistance (Nationally known as TANF)
YAG	Yittrium-aluminum-garnet laser

Dictionary of Eye Terminology, Third Edition by Barbara Cassin, Sheila A.B. Solomon and edited by Melvin L. Rubin, MD was used as a resource.