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TRUST FUND RATIO

A short-range measure of the adequacy of the trust fund level; defined as the assets at the beginning of the year expressed as a percentage of the outgo during the year.

TRUST FUND

Separate accounts in the U.S. Treasury, mandated by Congress, whose assets may be used only for a specified purpose. For the SMI trust fund, monies not withdrawn for current benefit payments and administrative expenses are invested in interest-bearing federal securities, as required by law; the interest earned is also deposited in the trust fund.

TRUE NEGATIVES

These are eligibles who have not received any services through the managed care plan, as evidenced by the absence of a medical record and any encounter data. True negatives signify potential access problems, and should be investigated by the managed care plan.

TRICARE FOR LIFE (TFL)

Expanded medical coverage available to Medicare-eligible uniformed services retirees age 65 or older, their eligible family members and survivors, and certain former spouses.

TRICARE

A health care program for active duty and retired uniformed services members and their families.

TREATMENT OPTIONS

The choices you have when there is more than one way to treat your health problem.

TREATMENT

Something done to help with a health problem. For example, medicine and surgery are treatments.

TRAUMA CODE DEVELOPMENT

An MSP investigation process triggered by receipt of a Medicare claim with a diagnosis indicating traumatic injury.

TRANSPLANT

The surgical procedure that involves removing a functional organ from either a deceased or living donor and implanting it in a patient needing a functional organ to replace their nonfunctional organ.

TRANSIENT PATIENTS

Patients who receive treatments on an episodic basis and are not part of a facilities regular caseload (i.e. patients who have not been permanently transferred to a facility for ongoing treatments).