Payment Systems Differentiate between the prospective payment systems for outpatient, home health, physician and non-physician practitioners, and ambulatory surgical settings. In your response ensure that you compare and contrast payment systems for each of the categories listed.
Discuss the disparity between the reimbursement and cost-sharing levels of the outpatient hospital facility and ASC. Why is parity and disparity an important topic to discuss?
Discussion Board Topic: Reimbursement Levels Discussion Topic for your response: As you have seen in this module, Medicare has different payment systems associated with various healthcare settings. In this chapter, you have learned about the hospital-based outpatient setting. This system is not used in the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) setting; rather a modified version of […]