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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
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112 MEDICAL CARE ECONOMIC RISK
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
