PMID- 10558005
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19991014
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0735-0732 (Print)
IS  - 0735-0732 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 7
DP  - 1999 Jul
TI  - Preparing for Medicare's APC system.
PG  - 40-5
AB  - The imminent arrival of Medicare's Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) 
      system, HCFA's new outpatient prospective payment system (PPS), is expected to 
      have as significant an effect on outpatient health care as the Diagnosis-Related 
      Groups (DRG) system had on inpatient health care when it was launched in the 
      early 1980s. Unlike the inauguration of the DRG system, however, the APC program 
      is not expected to be as forgiving to organizations unprepared to implement the 
      new prospective payment system. Since the APC program will be put into effect, 
      HCFA says, "as soon as possible after January 1, 2000," healthcare financial 
      managers should be preparing now.
FAU - Duncan, D G
AU  - Duncan DG
AD  - 3M Health Information Systems, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Healthc Financ Manage
JT  - Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management 
      Association
JID - 8215859
MH  - Ambulatory Care/*classification
MH  - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.
MH  - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MH  - Diagnosis-Related Groups/classification/economics
MH  - Efficiency, Organizational
MH  - Financial Management, Hospital/*methods
MH  - Information Management
MH  - Insurance Claim Review
MH  - Medicare/*organization & administration
MH  - Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/*economics
MH  - *Prospective Payment System
MH  - Staff Development
MH  - United States
EDAT- 1999/11/11 00:00
MHDA- 1999/11/11 00:01
CRDT- 1999/11/11 00:00
PHST- 1999/11/11 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/11/11 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/11/11 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Healthc Financ Manage. 1999 Jul;53(7):40-5.