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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Prospective payment"”.
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Impact of the 1983 Medicare Regulations on ten food service facilities in Kentucky
… to determine the impact of the 1983 Medicare Prospective Payment System. Ten Kentucky hospital foodservice directors were surveyed by phone. The Prospective Payment System had an impact on all areas of foodservice management, especially in the Inpatient Services. Foodservice directors …
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Efforts on the Part of Hospital Personnel to Learn About and Cope With Diagnostic Related Groups (Drgs)
… President. Title VI of this law contained the prospective payment system based on diagnostic related groups (DRGs).
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Impact Of The 2015 CMS Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting (IPFQR) Rule On Tobacco Treatment
… as part of the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS). This study evaluates the impact of that policy at a large academic medical center that opted to improve performance as it implemented reporting measures. Methods: Electronic medical record data were collected …
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Evaluation of Diagnosis Related Groups: Impacts on Cost and Patient Care
The impacts of the Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) reimbursement methodology of utilizing diagnosis related groups (DRGs) for calculating hospital charges was evaluated on Medicare program costs and quality of patient care. Through a comprehensive literature review, three measurements in the …
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… for inpatient Medicare rates or by withholding payment through several programs that comprise the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). Beginning in fiscal year 2017, Healthcare-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile infection</em> 30-day readmission penalties will commence under CMS quality …
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Multihospital Systems Wave of the Future in Healthcare
… regulation, computerization, specialization, and prospective payment), is that they can serve as the impetus for major organizational change. How these factors have served to catalyze the metamorphosis presently underway within the established communites of health care providers is presented as …
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Clinical nurse specialist-driven communication bundle to improve patient satisfaction
… HCAHPS data to receive their full Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) annual payment. Therefore, it is imperative for hospitals to have initiatives in place to ensure there is effective communication between the nurse and patient. Methods: Based on a midwestern hospital's HCAHPS data …
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An Assessment of Management Practices Among Virginia Acute Care Hospitals
… care organizations. Such pressures include prospective payment, increased competition, diminished Federal monies, new technological development, the increased growth and bargaining power of preferred provider organizations (PPO's), and growing employer and consumer demands for more …
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An examination of the presence of social work intervention with home health care recipients of related home health care outcomes
… Budget Act of 1997, which mandated the use of a Prospective Payment System for services reimbursement, has altered the delivery of home health services for many individuals (Liu, Long & Dowling, 2003). As a result, the focus on patient outcomes and the delivery of cost effective quality care has …
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Essays in Health Economics
… questions by studying the New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) program offered by Medicare (Part A). It is unknown whether its incentive is enough to encourage diffusion under the prospective payment system and it also remains unknown whether it spills over to non-Medicare patients or crowds them …
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The Effect of Public Policy on Health Service Providers
… reimbursed an extra 2.5 percent of the standard prospective payment rate. I extend a simple model of hospital quality as a function of insurance reimbursement increases to determine that under certain circumstances there exists a positive relationship between quality and reimbursement. I use …
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Three Essays on Health Care
… caused by the introduction of the partial prospective payment system (PPS) in Japan, which makes some procedures relatively more profitable than other procedures. We find that hospitals respond to PPS adoption by increasing utilization and increasing their manipulation of infant's reported …