title: New kid in town.
abstract: Hospitals can prepare for APC-based systems by: Paying close attention to the modifications that state payers make to Medicare's APC policies. Proactively monitoring and adjusting billing practices to be as consistent with the state payers' APC billing requirements as possible, even if the billing requirements have no effect on current payments for services. Analyzing the ways in which state payer APC policies vary from Medicare to anticipate the impact of these systems on their hospitals' operations and financial condition.
authors.affiliation: Navigant Consulting Inc, USA. GDavidson@NavigantConsulting.com
authors.forename: Gwyn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pettersson
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States