Chapter 5: Ambulatory Care
comprehensive Questions and Answers
with Verified Solutions
Question:
What is ambulatory care?
Answer:
healthcare services that do not require overnight hospitalization
Question:
examples of ambulatory care
Answer:
routine medical procedures, outpatient visits, visits to private physicians
offices, screening, diagnostic procedures, dialysis, women's health, PT,
pain mgt, cardiac
Question:
what is the DRG payment system?
Answer:
placed financial incentives on a prospective payment system where a
hospital gets a certain amount of money and if they dont use it all they get
to keep the rest. ambulatory care decreased the number of visits and
LOS, so it saved hospitals money
Question:
when did ambulatory care start growing?
Answer:
1995 - 2010
, Question:
What is the predominant mode of ambulatory care in the U.S.?
Answer:
private physician office
Question:
what factors influenced a shift from the solo mode of private practice to
group practice?
Answer:
1. social movements in the 60's
2. medical specialization
3. introduction of medicare in the 65's
4. need to share complex admin support/expensive technology
Question:
what are the 2 forms of group practice?
Answer:
one is just one specialty and the other is multidisciplinary
Question:
how did traditional ambulatory care models reimburse providers for
services?
Answer:
on a fee-for-service basis
comprehensive Questions and Answers
with Verified Solutions
Question:
What is ambulatory care?
Answer:
healthcare services that do not require overnight hospitalization
Question:
examples of ambulatory care
Answer:
routine medical procedures, outpatient visits, visits to private physicians
offices, screening, diagnostic procedures, dialysis, women's health, PT,
pain mgt, cardiac
Question:
what is the DRG payment system?
Answer:
placed financial incentives on a prospective payment system where a
hospital gets a certain amount of money and if they dont use it all they get
to keep the rest. ambulatory care decreased the number of visits and
LOS, so it saved hospitals money
Question:
when did ambulatory care start growing?
Answer:
1995 - 2010
, Question:
What is the predominant mode of ambulatory care in the U.S.?
Answer:
private physician office
Question:
what factors influenced a shift from the solo mode of private practice to
group practice?
Answer:
1. social movements in the 60's
2. medical specialization
3. introduction of medicare in the 65's
4. need to share complex admin support/expensive technology
Question:
what are the 2 forms of group practice?
Answer:
one is just one specialty and the other is multidisciplinary
Question:
how did traditional ambulatory care models reimburse providers for
services?
Answer:
on a fee-for-service basis
