title: Payment for using new technologies. Why it's hard to find the essential information that you need.
abstract: As methods of paying for care grow in complexity, estimating a new technology's potential for generation of revenue becomes more difficult. Among the important factors are the inpatient DRG that is assigned, the device's FDA approval status, and whether Medicare and other third parties will pay the physician fee that is often involved with the device's use. Finding precise information about some of these factors is difficult; hospital associations could help by seeking improvements in the ways in which payment decisions are made.
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics*; D006761:Hospitals; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States