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  • Title: Toil and trouble over outpatient prospective payment.
    Author: Gildea J.
    Journal: Health Cost Manage; 1988; 5(1):1-10. PubMed ID: 10312363.
    Abstract:
    PACs, AVGs, EDGs--the health care alphabet soup is burbling as HCFA considers a mandate for a Medicare outpatient PPS. And some third-party payers are devising their own outpatient PPSs for non-Medicare enrollees in the interest of curbing high ambulatory care costs. Here is a report on the status and timing of all these efforts from a variety of participants and observers.
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