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CMS Pub. 100-01, ch. 7, § 40.1
Standardized Terminology for Claims Processing Systems
The SSMs, MACs and the STC shall use standardized terminology to refer to common systems
maintenance elements in all discussions, reporting, and documentation. Using common
terminology will minimize confusion and misunderstanding for CMS, SSMs, MACs and the STC.
The MACs and the STC shall examine their use of the system status information issued by the
SSMs to determine if they have internal applications that need to be adjusted to adopt the
standardized terminology. If they have internal systems or processes that must be modified to
reflect the standardization required by this instruction, they shall make those changes to coincide
with the shared system changes.
History
(Rev. 97, Issued: 01-15-16, Effective: 09-21-15, Implementation: 09-21-15)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
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