title: Hotter than a pepper sprout.
abstract: This year's federal budget contains a five-year deficit reduction plan that requires Medicare Part A and Part B be cut by $44.1 billion through fiscal 1995. One idea to help ease the transition would be to extend the prospective payment system to ever-growing outpatient charges under Part B through a system called Ambulatory Patient Groups.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Reid
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000145:classification*; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States