title: Flipped out over outpatient PPS.
abstract: The adjustment to Medicare's new outpatient prospective payment system has been anything but calm and orderly. Hospital billing offices have had to totally redo their systems. Ill-prepared providers are seeing claims tossed out and reimbursement delayed, with a definite impact on their bottom lines. Now, insurers are poised to adopt similar payment policies. What's needed in many cases is training and a coders-wanted sign, observers say.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Galloro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D006278:Medicare; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States