Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
HFBoards has an incredibly toxic community, but it also has some pretty great parts as well (there's some very in-depth discussion on occasion, as well as some humorous threads). Still, the community (and awful moderators) makes me not want to stick around for the great bits.
Hospital Value-Based Purchasing. Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) is part of our ongoing work to structure Medicareâs payment system to reward providers for the quality of care they provide. This program adjusts payments to hospitals under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), based on the quality of care they deliver.