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reasons for merging solo practices - uncertainties of the health care delivery system, competition from large health organizations, high cost of establishing a new practice, complexity of billings and collections, increased external controls over private practice hospital-based outpatient services - functions particularly in inner-city areas. can be the community's safety net, providing primary care to the indigent and uninsured. suburban expansion to increase market share. key source of p...

What are the five main types of hospital-based outpatient services? - Answers-1. Clinical 2. Surgical 3. Home Health 4. Woman's health 5. Emergency Services Type of outpatient facility that includes walk in clinics, urgent care centers, retail clinics, and surgi-centers - Answers-Free-standing Facilities Outpatient delivery method where services are transported to patients either through mobile medical, mobile diagnostic, or mobile screening care units - Answers-Mobile Medical, Diag...

Ambulatory care - Answers-Diagnostic and therapeutic services and treatments provided to the ambulatory patient, serves the surrounding community, providing convenience and easy accessibility. "community medicine" extraordinary growth in these three subjects of outpatient care - Answers-Volume of outpatient services Emergence of new types of settings Type and ownership of non-hospital based facilities offering ambulatory care What services continues to decline? - Answers-Hospital ...

A patient is diagnosed with back strain caused by heavy lifting. As part of the treatment, the physician discusses 4-5 different back stretching exercises that the patient can perform every morning and before doing any heavy lifting. The discussion only takes 10 minutes of a 15 minute Established Patient visit. Would your physician be able to bill counseling time on this patient? - Answers-Yes What medical term would best describe "the likely course or outcome of a disease"? - Answers-P...

Knowledge Check: Meera has been seen at your clinic by Dr. Polik every 6 months for the past 2 years. She is here today for a routine appointment, but is seeing Dr. Polik's Nurse Practitioner. Is Maria considered a new or established patient today? - Established patient Knowledge Check: Match each of the patients below with the type of visit: diagnostic or health management.

racial/ethnic minorities. · Visits are higher in metropolitan areas than in rural areas, reflecting poorer access to primary care in rural areas · Outpatient care do much more than primary care services; most surgeries are now performed in outpatient settings and could be performed at hospitals · Services shift towards outpatient care and hospital occupancy have declined · Establishing more Outpatient care market has become a threat to hospitals due to services are expanding more and has...

The basic form of an outpatient service is a patient seeing his or her physician in the physician's office Other outpatient services include: emergency department services, observation services, outpatient surgery, lab tests, X-rays, or any other hospital services when the doctor hasn't written a hospital admission order Hospitals' Evolution - Answers--They were the precursor of the almshouses or poorhouses that were developed in the 1820s to primarily serve the poor -Hospitals pro...

Changes in reimbursement - - financial incentives to reimburse for outpatient care - patients favoring outpatient services Development of New Technology - - less invasive procedures; surgical procedures less traumatic - shorter-acting anesthetics - faster recovery time

Patients who receive services furnished on a hospital's premises that are ordered by a physician (or another authorized individual), including use of a bed and periodic monitoring by nursing or other staff, and that are reasonable and necessary to evaluate the outpatients' conditions or determine the need for possible admission as inpatients (and who are in the unit no longer than 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds), are called - Answers-observation An organized method of identifying ...

General Hospitals - Answers-Provides many different types of services to meet the general needs of its population. Specialty Hospitals - Answers-Provide services for a specific disease or target population. Some examples are psychiatric, children's, women's, cardiac, cancer, rehabilitation, and orthopedic hospitals. Acute Care - Answers-Short-stay-focuses on patients who stay on an average of less than 30 days. Community hospitals for example