SC
Subcommittee.
SCHIP
The State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Predefined areas of operation for which a business continuation plan is developed.
SDO
Standards Development Healthcare organization.
Secretary
Under HIPAA, this refers to the Secretary of HHS or his/her designated representatives.
Segment
Under HIPAA, this is a group of related data elements in a transaction.
Self-Insured
An individual or healthcare organization that assumes the financial risk of paying for health care.
Small Health Plan
Under HIPAA, this is a health plan with annual receipts of $5 million or less.
SNF
Skilled Nursing Facility.
SNOMED
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine.
SSN
Social Security Number.
Standard Transaction Format Compliance System (STFCS)
An EHNAC-sponsored WPC-hosted HIPAA compliance certification service.
Standard Transaction
Under HIPAA, this is a transaction that complies with the applicable HIPAA standard.
State Law
A constitution, statue, regulation, rule, common law, or any other State action having the force and effect of law.
State Uniform Billing Committee (SUBC)
A states-specific affiliate of the NUBC.
Statement of Work (SOW)
A document describing the specific tasks and methodologies that will be followed to satisfy the requirements of an associated contract or MOU.
Strategic National Implementation Process (SNIP)
A WEDI program for helping the health care industry identify and resolve HIPAA implementation issues.
Data the meaning of which can be inferred to at least some extent based on its absolute or relative location in a separately defined data structure. This structure could be the blocks on a form, the fields in a record, the relative positions of data elements in an X12 segment, etc. Unstructured data, such as a memo or an image, would lack such clues.
Structured Walkthrough
One method of testing a specific component of a plan. Typically, a team member makes a detailed presentation of the component to other team members (and possibly non-members) for their critique and evaluation.
Subscription
Contract commitment that provides a healthcare organization with the right to utilize a vendor recovery facility for processing capability in the event of a disaster declaration.
SWG
Subworkgroup.
Syntax
The rules and conventions that one needs to know or follow in order to validly record information, or interpret previously recorded information, for a specific purpose. Thus, a syntax is a grammar. Such rules and conventions may be either explicit or implicit. In X12 transactions, the data-element separators, the sub-element separators, the segment terminators, the segment identifiers, the loops, the loop identifiers (when present), the repetition factors, etc., are all aspects of the X12 syntax. When explicit, such syntactical elements tend to be the structural, or formatrelated, data elements that are not required when a direct data entry architecture is used. Ultimately, though, there is not a perfectly clear division between the syntactical elements and the business data content.