| Acronym |
Term |
Audiences |
| B&P |
Bid & Proposal |
General |
| BA |
Basic Agreement |
General |
| BA |
Budget Administration |
General |
| BA |
Budget Authority |
General |
| BA |
Business Associate |
Health Care |
| BAAADS |
Budget Apportionment Allotment Allowance & Database System |
General |
| BAC |
Beneficiary Advisory Committee |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BAC |
Billing Action Code |
General |
| BACOM |
Beneficiary Annotation & Communication Operation |
General, Health Care |
| BAR |
Beneficiary Adjustment Report |
General, Health Care |
| BARS |
Bid Analysis & Reporting System |
General |
| BATF |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms |
General, Health Care |
| BBA |
Balanced Budget Act of 1997 |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BBRA |
Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 (PL 106113) |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BC/BS |
Blue Cross/Blue Shield |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BCA |
Board of Contract Appeals |
General, Health Care |
| BCB |
Beneficiary Confidentiality Board |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BCBSA |
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BCC |
Billing Cycle Code |
General |
| BCC |
Block Check Character |
General |
| BCCE |
Baltimore Computer Conference & Exposition |
General |
| BCCP |
Business Continuity & Contingency Plan |
General |
| BCD |
Binary Coded Decimal |
General |
| BCF |
Benefit Correction Form |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BCN |
Batch Clearance Notice |
General |
| BD |
Budget Distribution |
General |
| BDAM |
Basic Data Access Method |
General |
| BDF |
Bulk Data Facility |
General |
| BDOD |
Beneficiary Date of Death |
General, Health Care |
| BDP |
Beneficiary Database Prototype |
General, Health Care |
| BDPC |
Breakthrough Drug Pricing Committee |
General, Health Care |
| BDPP |
Beneficiary Database Prototype Project |
General, Health Care |
| BDTS |
Batched Data Transmission System |
General |
| BEA |
Budget Expense Account |
General |
| BEA |
Bureau of Economic Affairs |
General |
| BEA |
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
General |
| BEA |
Business Enterprise Area |
General |
| BEAM |
Brain Electrical Activity Mapping |
General, Health Care |
| BEAU |
Budget Expense Account Unit |
General |
| BEER |
Beneficiary Earnings Exchange Record |
General, Health Care |
| BEI |
Budget Estimating Initiative |
General |
| BENDEX |
Beneficiary & Earnings Data Exchange System |
General, Health Care |
| BENDEX |
Beneficiary Data Exchange |
General, Health Care |
| BERT |
(EDB) Beneficiary Enrollment Retrieval System |
General, Health Care |
| BESS |
Part B Extract & Summary System (nee BMAD) |
General, Health Care |
| BEST |
Beneficiary Eligibility State Tape (EDB Bene Alpha File) |
General, Health Care |
| BEST |
Beneficiary State Totals (from SPACE System) |
General, Health Care |
| BETOS |
Berenson Eggers Type of Service |
General |
| BF |
Beneficiary File |
General, Health Care |
| BGN |
Beneficiary Given Name |
General, Health Care |
| BHO |
Behavioral Health Organization |
General, Health Care |
| BHS |
Business Health Services |
General |
| BI |
Background Investigation |
General |
| BI |
Benefits Integrity |
General, Health Care |
| BI |
Buy In |
General |
| BIA |
Business Impact Analysis |
General |
| BIC |
Beneficiary Identification Code |
General, Health Care |
| BICEQN |
BIC Equate Number |
General |
| BIEC |
BuyIn Eligibility Code |
General |
| BIER |
Billing Information Exchange Record |
General |
| BIF |
Beneficiary Insurance File |
General, Health Care |
| BIF |
Benefit Information Form |
General, Health Care |
| BIMF |
Beneficiary Inactive Master File |
General, Health Care |
| BIPA |
Benefits, Improvements & Protection Act of 2000 |
General, Health Care |
| BISC |
Benefit Integrity support Center |
General, Health Care |
| BISYNC |
Binary Synchronous Communication (IBM data communications
protocol) |
General |
| BIT |
Beneficiary Inquiries Taskforce |
General, Health Care |
| BITF |
Beneficiary Implementation Task Force |
General, Health Care |
| BITS |
Beneficiary Information Tracking System |
General, Health Care |
| BITS |
Beneficiary Inquiry Tracking System |
General, Health Care |
| BITSMIS |
BITS Management Information System |
General |
| BIW |
Beneficiary Inquiries Workgroup |
General, Health Care |
| BL |
Black Lung |
General, Health Care |
| BLASER |
Black Lung Automated Search & Edit Routine |
General, Health Care |
| BLM |
Bureau of Land Management |
General |
| BLP |
Bypass Label Processing |
General |
| BLS |
Basic Life Support |
General, Health Care |
| BLS |
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL) |
General |
| BLUC |
Bottom Line Unit Cost |
General |
| BLUES |
Blue Cross/Blue Shield associations |
General, Health Care |
| BMA |
BioMedical Applications |
General, Health Care |
| BMACS |
Part B Medicare Automated Claims Systems |
General, Health Care |
| BMCHRD |
Bureau of Maternal & Child Health & Resources
Development |
General, Health Care |
| BOA |
Basic Ordering Agreement |
General |
| BOAN |
Beneficiary's Own Account Number (SSN) |
General, Health Care |
| BOCMIS |
Beneficiary Overpayment Control & Management Information
System |
General, Health Care |
| BOD |
Bid Opening Date |
General |
| BOIS |
Beneficiary Online Inquiry System (HI/SMI online in HCFA) |
General, Health Care |
| BOM |
Bill of Materials |
General |
| BOMA |
Building Owners & Managers Association |
General |
| BOME |
Bureau of Medical Examiners |
General, Health Care |
| BOR |
Before Outliers Removed |
General |
| BOSS |
Best on Open Systems Solutions |
General |
| BOSSN |
Beneficiary's Own SSN |
General, Health Care |
| BP |
Benefit Period |
Health Care, Medicare Beneficiary |
| BP |
Best Price |
General |
| BP |
Business Partner |
Health Care |
| BPA |
Blanket Purchase Arrangement (or Agreement) |
General |
| BPC |
Base Period Charge |
General, Health Care |
| BPO |
Bargain Purchase Option |
General |
| BPR |
Budget & Performance Requirements |
General |
| BPR |
Business Process Reengineering |
General |
| BPS |
Budget Preparation System |
General |
| BPST |
Bill Processing System Test |
General |
| BQAS |
Part B Quality Assurance System |
General, Health Care |
| BR |
Budget Request |
General |
| BRA |
Business Resumption Assessment |
General |
| BRC |
Base Rate Calculation |
General |
| BRDPI |
Biomedical Research & Development Price Index |
General, Health Care |
| BRDS |
Bill Review Documentation Summary form |
General |
| BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
General |
| BRI |
Benefit Rate Increase |
General, Health Care |
| BRRR |
Bills Received & Returned Report |
General |
| BRS |
Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
General |
| BRT |
Business Roundtable |
General |
| BSA |
Business Software Alliance |
General |
| BSC |
Binary Synchronous Communication |
General |
| BSF |
Benefit Stabilization Fund |
General |
| BSP |
Business Systems Planning |
General |
| BSR |
(Part B) Bill Summary Records |
General, Health Care |
| BSRS |
Benefit Savings Reporting System |
General, Health Care |
| BSS |
Beneficiary Satisfaction Survey |
General, Health Care |
| BSS |
Benefit Summary Statistics |
General, Health Care |
| BTW |
Bill Type Weight |
General |
| BUCS |
Budget Under Control System |
General |
| BUR |
Billing Update Record |
General |
| BUTE |
Beneficiary Database Update Transaction System (HDBUTE) |
General, Health Care |
| BVR |
Budget Variance Report |
General |
| BVS |
Bureau of Vital Statistics |
General |
| BY |
Budget Year |
General |
