Outpatient services for children

Performance-Based Contracts for Outpatient Medical Services

In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popularity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the United States (under the name of “pay for performance”) and abroad (“payment by results” in the United Kingdom). The goal of our research is to build a unified performance-based contracting (PBC) framework that incorporates pat...

Costing the outpatient rehabilitation services in Nezam-Mafi Rehabilitation Center

Objectives: One of the basic challenges of health care centers is the inflated costs of services. Rehabilitation services play a significant role in restoring people's functional ability and returning people with disabilities to society. Costing the rehabilitation services in an accurate way could sustain advisable decisions on activity based budgeting and optimal resource allocation. The objec...

Hospital outpatient services under Medicare, 1987

Presented in this article are data related to hospital outpatient services provided for aged and disabled Medicare beneficiaries during calendar year 1987. Trend data are also presented for selected calendar years 1974-87. Hospital outpatient covered charges and Medicare program payments (in total and per enrollee) are the statistics employed to measure the use of hospital outpatient services. ...

Inpatient and Outpatient Hospital Services Handbook

Implementing the patient's charter in outpatient services.

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