Meaning Medical Patent. The word 'patent' has at least three meanings in the medical industry. These meanings include: 1  Open or unblocked-the throat patent (or unblocked). 2  A government license restricting use by others-patented heart valve.3  Drug covered by a patent or trademark-patent drugs vs off-patent drugs.eaning 1: Patent = open/unblocked. Patent has a medical meaning of open or unblocked, particularly regarding an unblocked tube. Common usage includes a 'patent airway', or 'patent fallopian tubes'.
Documentation needed to qualify for timely filing limit exceptions. Section 6404 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) reduced the maximum period for submission of all Medicare fee-for-service claims to no more than 12 months -- one calendar year -- after the date of service.
Qualified pension plan. limits for 2016. The dollar limitations for qualified retirement. and certain non-qualified plans that become. effective January 1, 2016, were released by. the IRS in IR-2015-118. The dollar limitations that are adjusted by. reference to IRC Â§415(d) are adjusted for.