Toil and trouble over outpatient prospective payment.
PACs, AVGs, EDGs--the health care alphabet soup is burbling as HCFA considers a mandate for a Medicare outpatient PPS. And some third-party payers are devising their own outpatient PPSs for non-Medicare enrollees in the interest of curbing high ambulatory care costs. Here is a report on the status and timing of all these efforts from a variety of participants and observers.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000145:classification*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006278:Medicare; D009518:New York; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D010045:Outpatients / Q000145:classification; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States