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Hospitals glossary and terms letter `S`

Staff physician

Self-Insured Plan

Skilled Nursing Facility Care

Special Enrollment Period

Special Health Care Need

State Continuation Coverage

Secondary Coverage

Secondary Payer

Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver

Section 1915(b) Medicaid Waiver

Self-Funding or Self-Funded Plan

Self-Insurance or Self-Insured

Service Category Definition

Shared Risk Pool for Referral Services

Significant Break in Coverage

Single-Stream Funding

Site Appropriateness Listings

Site-of-Service Differential

Skilled Nursing Care

Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)

Small Group Market

Sole Community Hospital (SCH)

Solo Practice, Solo Practitioner

Social Health Maintenance Organization (SHMO)

Special Election Period

Special Needs Plan

Specialty Health Maintenance Organization (Specialty HMO)

Specific Stop Loss Coverage

Specified Disease Insurance

Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB)

Spider Graphs/Charts

Staff Model HMO

Standard Class Rate (SCR)

Standard Community Rating

Standard of Care

Standing Referral

State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP)

State Insurance Department

State Medical Assistance Office

State Pharmacy Assistance Program

Statutory Solvency

Step Therapy (and Fail First Requirements)

Stop Loss Insurance

Structural Integration

Sub-Capitation, Subcap or Subcapitation

Subscriber Contract

Summary Plan Description (SPD)

Supplemental Insurance

Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI)

Supplemental Payer

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Supplemental Services

Surplus Lines Tax

Shaped Beam Radiation System

Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography Unit

Skilled Nursing or Other Long-Term Care Unit

Sleep Lab Department

Social Services

Speech Therapy Services

Sports Medicine Department

Sterotactic Radiosurgery

Swing Bed Services

Safer Needle Devices or Sharps with engineered sharps injury protections

Skilled Nursing Facility

Specular reflection

Spinous process

Shortness of breath

Supervisors/Charge Nurse

SVC or Superior Vena Cava

Seizure disorder

Shaken baby syndrome

Staph or Staphylococcus

Strep or Streptococcus

Supportive Care

Sympathetic Nervous System

Systemic therapy

Saline solution

Salmonella infections

Salpingo-oophorectomy

Sciatica (also called lumbar radiculopathy)

Sclerosing adenosis

Screening mammogram

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Sebaceous glands

Seborrheic keratosis

Secondary tumor

Segmental mastectomy

Sensorineural hearing loss

Sexually transmitted disease (STD)

Short bowel syndrome (also called short gut syndrome)

Shwachman's syndrome

Silent ischemia

Simple mastectomy

Sinuses (paranasal sinuses)

Skin (cutaneous) diphtheria

Small intestine

Sound vocalization

Spasmodic dysphonia

Specific language impairment (SLI)

Specific phobia

Speech disorder

Speech processor

Speech-language pathologist

Sperm disorders

Sphincter muscles

Sphincter of Oddi

Sphygmomanometer

Spinal anesthesia

Spinal anesthetic

Spinal instability

Spinal stenosis

Spinal tap (also called lumbar puncture)

Spondylolisthesis

Sputum (Also called phlegm.)

Squamous cell cancer

Squamous cell carcinoma

Squamous cells (also called keratinocytes)

Squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL)

Stem cell transplantation

Stomach ulcer (also called a gastric ulcer)

Stool (also called feces)

Stork bite (salmon patch)

Straight leg raise (SLR)

Strawberry hemangioma

Stress fracture

Stress incontinence

Stricture (also called stenosis)

Stroke (also called brain attack)

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Subchondral tissue

Substantia nigra

Subtotal (partial) gastrectomy

Sudden-deafness

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Suicidal behavior

Suicidal ideation

Suicide attempt

Superior vena cava

Suprarenal glands

Suspensory ligament of lens

Sustention (postural) tremor

Swallowing disorders

Syndromic hearing impairment

Synovial membrane

Syrup of ipecac

Systemic chemotherapy

Systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus)

Systemic treatment or therapy

Systolic blood pressure

Systolic pressure

Second-degree burn (Also called a partial thickness burn.)

Second-degree relative

Secondary sexual characteristics

Selective mutism

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

Sex chromosomes

Shprintzen syndrome (also known as DiGeorge syndrome; velocardiofacial syndrome; 22q11 syndrome

Sickle cell - hemoglobin C disease

Sickle cell - hemoglobin E disease

Sickle cell anemia (hemoglobin SS)

Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell trait

Sickle crisis (Also called pain crisis or vasoocclusive crisis.)

Single ventricle

Single ventricle syndrome

Sinus (paranasal sinuses)

Sinus tachycardia

Sjogren syndrome

Skeletal dysplasias

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)

Small for gestational age (SGA)

Speech and language specialist

Speech disorders

Sphincter electromyogram (EMG)

Spina bifida (also called meningomyelocele or neural tube defect)

Spinal cord injury (SCI)

Spinal disc herniation

Spinal muscular atrophy

Spinal tap (Also called a lumbar puncture.)

Spine deformities (scoliosis; kyphosis; lordosis)

Spine or vertebral anomalies

Spondyloarthropathy

Sports injuries

Sports-related concussion

Squamous cells (Also called keratinocytes.)

Stature disorders

Stomach and duodenal ulcers (peptic ulcers)

Stork bite or salmon patch

Sturge-Weber syndrome

Subclavian flap

Subconjunctival hemorrhage

Subtotal or partial gastrectomy

Sudden deafness

Suprarenal glands (Also called adrenal glands.)

Supraventricular tachycardia

Surgical oncologist

Syringohydromyelia

Systemic lupus erythematosus (also called SLE or lupus)

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