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There are various prospective payment systems for outpatient, home health, physician and nonphysician practitioners, and ambulatory surgical settings.
Instructions:
Identify two unique prospective payment systems and describe the facility types each of your selected systems are used for.
How are the unique differences in your two identified systems utilized in reimbursement? Provide an example to support your answer.
Why are all payment systems not the same? Provide an example to support your answer.
Prospective payment system is described as payment system to
determine insurance reimbursement based on pre-determine payment
for actual service provided..PPS used by basically from health care
providers and third-party payers..It has many variations of
payments for inpatient,outpatient, skilled nursing facillities,home
health agencies,long-term care and rehabilitation facilities with
providers..
Home health:
? Medicare pays for home health agencies under
prospective payment system..It is a predetermined payment system.It
provides payment for patient health condition and care they
needs..There are no limits for this.The home health PPS provides
for each beneficiary..End of the first episodes escond episodes can
begin for eligible care..The full payment in the initial percentage
unless there is an applicable adjustment..
? This will be estimated according to patient condition and the
care they needs..This split percentage payment and balanced cash
flow for HHAs..After 60days episode can be applicable for long stay
patients..Annual payment totally estamated is not more than
2.5%..Low utilization payment adjustment for four or fewer
visit.This will save from reduced payment systems can be
redistributed to all episodes under the PPS..
? The PPS rate will include all services and medical
supplies and medical social services..The centers for medicare and
medicaid services(CMS) having problem in HH PPS rates and wage
index year 2018..Medicare reimbursement 1%dropped in 2018.In 2017
the proposed rate was 180million dollar it will be less in next
year.The CMS applied 3%annual payment reduction or increase in nine
states but it increase to 8% in 2022..
Out patient PPS:
? The basic rule for this OPPS and medicare Ambulatory
Surgical Center(ASC) payment system needs continuing experience to
arise changes in requirements..The changes for amounts and factors
to determine the payment rates for medicare service paid under
OPPS..This need requirement for the hospital outpatient Quality
Report(OQR)program and the ASC Quaity Report program..For example
in the hospital Outpatient outpatient environment imaging is not
paid seperately when reports with service delivery..Packaged
services do not receive seperate payment.The total outier payement
at 1.0% of total OPPS payments..It continue to pay 50% of the
amount hospital cost exceeds 1.75times the APC payment
amount..
? All the payemnt systems are not same the acute in
patient payement provides an manage the costs of inputs needed for
care..The hospitals managing th cost by eliminating unneccessary
services..Same like inpatient outpatient system services similar
cost wise 850 ambulatory payment
classification(APC)categaries..
? Skilled nursing facilities PPS will cover all the
routine services and care..it differ for high cost ancillary
services For example ventilator and tracheostomy care etc..
? Home health PPS depends the number of case provided for medicare
patients..According to number of visits the cost -based payment
provided a transition to prospective payemnt..
? Outpatient dialysis services will receive larger part payment
that cover the dialysis treatment and samall part of drugs
suppliments and lab tests..according to home dialysis,hospital
dialysis payment will be differ 4 dollar per treatment..
? Physicians medicare pays for medical professionals who can give
treatement and service provided directly to patient..
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