N ew patient visits used to be easy to distinguish from those with established patients. A new patient was someone you had not previously seen or perhaps someone for whom you did not have a current medical record. Today, like so many other aspects of health care delivery, differentiating between new and established patients and coding your services accordingly has become more complex. By CPT de...

The statistics presented in this report on the use of family planning and infertility services in the United States are based on interviews with a national sample of 6428 currently married women 15-44 years of age, which were conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. The statistics are presented in text tables, figures, and detailed tables. 2 measures of the use of family planni...

The purpose of this research is to design service design, a canvas business model (BMC) based on the services that have been designed and know role society. required data divided into two, namely primary secondary data. Primary was obtained by conducting interviews observations tourists, managers community around Siregar Aek Nalas. such as access, amenities, safety security, processes, physical...

BACKGROUND Millions of children die every year in developing countries, from preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, owing to low levels of investment in child health. Investment efforts are hampered by a general lack of adequate information that is necessary for priority setting in this sector. This paper measures the health system costs of providing inpatient and outpatient serv...

PURPOSE To assess the age the of the first dental visit and the association of self-perceived oral health, socioeconomic and clinical indicators with healthcare utilisation in Brazilian preschool children. MATERIALS AND METHODS An epidemiological survey with 455 5- to 59-month-old children was conducted on National Children's Vaccination Day in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. Data about age and reas...

This article analyzes the effect of implementing a per-visit copayment for medical services in Korea. The introduction of the per-visit copayment was effective in changing the pattern for medical utilization and containing medical cost inflation. The most remarkable change after implementation of the copayment was a reduction in medical and dental contacts and a rise in service intensity for ea...

BACKGROUND Regardless of high maternal deaths in Pakistan, only 37% of pregnant women make four or more antenatal care visits during pregnancy. This proportion has further been diverged between urban and rural. About 62% of women visit clinics for WHO recommended sets of antenatal care (ANC) check-ups in urban as compared to 26% women in rural areas. This study was conducted with the aim to ass...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Survey of Family Growth •About 7% of persons aged 15-25 would not seek sexual or reproductive health care because of concerns that their parents might find out about it. •For females aged 15-17 and 18-25, those who had confidentiality concerns were less likely to receive sexual and reproductive health services in the past year compared with those without thes...

W hen Aetna recently agreed to stop bundling problem-oriented services with preventive services provided on the same date, the AAFP contacted 40 other health plans and asked that they follow Aetna’s lead. To date, none have agreed to change their policies, although a few did respond that they already allow payment for both services on the same date (see “Aetna’s decision” at right for more i...