The clinical development of an ambulatory classification system: version 2.0 Ambulatory Patient Groups.
In 1995, the Health Care Financing Administration submitted a Report to Congress recommending the Ambulatory Patient Groups (APGs), or an APG-like patient classification system, be used as the basis of a Medicare outpatient prospective payment system (PPS). Version 2.0 of APGs has been developed in anticipation of its potential use in a Medicare outpatient PPS. The development process and final structure of Version 2.0 of the APGs is described.
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D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification*; D006278:Medicare; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States