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CFR

American  

abbreviation

  1. case fatality rate; case fatality risk; case fatality ratio.

  2. Code of Federal Regulations.


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Specifically, 42 CFR 438.4, which requires states to set Medicaid reimbursement rates that allow insurers to achieve at least 85% medical-loss ratios.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

It is difficult to gauge whether the population is rallying behind the CFR.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

Swiss luxury company Richemont CFR -0.32%decrease; red down pointing triangle has grown sales by more than 10% year-over-year in its Americas region for seven quarters in a row.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Dividing the total deaths by the number of cases results in what epidemiologists call a case fatality rate, or CFR, of 52 percent.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024

Everything I’d learned over the summer in the CFR class was gone.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

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