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groups of services. The outpatient prospective payment system classifies hospital outpatient services into Ambulatory Payment Classifications. Ambulatory Payment Classifications are assigned by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and are updated annually. Ambulatory Payment Classifications are services that are similar in the aspect of the resources required to provide the service. The Outpatient Prospective Payment System was developed to control the costs for healthcare services by using

The U.S. Department of Defense has required Brooke Army Medical Center to seek reimbursement for medical procedures conducted on third party insured civilian patients. The need for a professional billing service to effectively acquire third party reimbursement for healthcare services within Brooke Army Medical Center is essential to the financial success of the organization. The hospital is operating in a demanding environment due to a highly regulated healthcare industry and an uneven playing field

receive fifteen types of payment based on a payment structure and negotiations with various plans such as fee-for-service, PPO, HMO and POS plans. Such pricing is clear evidence that price discrimination exists. It is common knowledge that Medicaid and Medicare reimburse lower prices than the cost of providing healthcare services. The federal government often makes cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, which in turn results in a decrease in the revenue received by healthcare

Living to the ripe old age of eighty and beyond is no longer a wishful thought. However, as individuals begin to live longer lives, the need to adjust healthcare initiatives, such as Medicaid, is of the utmost importance. As the United States sets out to implement the national health initiative, the country’s Medicaid system must be reevaluated and adjusted. Although patients are able to receive medical treatment in hospitals that have an emergency room, they are not able to receive any medical attention

Part A : Key outcomes achieved through the implementation of the ACA in 2010. Access, Cost and Quality: ACA expanded Medicaid to all Americans below 133% of the federal poverty level from the previous cut-off at 138 percent. The enrollment for Medicaid and CHIP has been simplified. ACA prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. This is known as guaranteed issue. ACA also extends dependent coverage for young adults unto the age of 26; so they can stay insured

HITECH ACT FUNDS ALLOCATION HITECH act is part of the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment) Act of 2009 designed to promote the adoption of Health information Technology (HIT) and meaningful use of the HIT. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CMS have spent more than 25.9 billion under the HITECH act to create the HIT infrastructure and a nationwide network for Electronic Health Records (EHR). According to Washington Post, as much 36.5 billion has been spent toward incentives

intensify the footing for every American to profit from an electronic health record (EHR) as part of a modernized, interrelated, and vastly improved grouping of care delivery. HITECH Act provides billions of dollars in incentive payments through Medicare and Medicaid programs to providers that meaningfully use EHR. The HITECH Act also revised many segments of the Social Security Act (SSA) and in doing so, recognized the accessibility of incentive payments to providers to encourage the acceptance and Meaningful

tribes and tribal organizations providing health services to American Indians/Alaska Native (AI/AN) in Alaska. It is a complex system that is an agreement that sets terms and conditions of the government-to-government relationship between Alaska Native tribes and/or tribal organizations, and the United States government through the Indian Health Service (Health Care in Alaska, 2014). Alaska Native Health System are spread out all over Alaska. Medicaid is second largest source of coverage for AI/AN

MEANINGFUL USE: Background: In 2009, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) along with the support of Congress proposed that the use of Health Information Technology (HIT) has tremendous potential in improving healthcare and transform how the health care is delivered. So, under Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), as a part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Federal government has established a combination of voluntary financial

President Trump’s new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, discussed the benefits of transforming healthcare to value-based and highlighting the importance of creating price-transparency. Azar wants to use Medicare's power to shift how the nation pays for health care, from reimbursing for procedures to paying for outcomes. It has been emphasized, in order to move to a system where we put patients more in charge of their own healthcare dollars, providers and insurers have to become more