title: AVGs: framework for ambulatory care payment.
abstract: In preparation for an ambulatory care prospective payment system, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Office of Research and Demonstration, supported a two-year grant project at Yale University for further development of an ambulatory patient classification system based on Ambulatory Visit Groups (AVGs). This article explains the premises of the study and gives us insight into what we may ultimately expect in an ambulatory care prospective payment system.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients / Q000145:classification*; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States