Provide an overview of the prospective payment system.
What will be an ideal response?
The prospective payment system (PPS) was enacted on October 1, 1983. The Social Security Amendments of 1983 initiated the new system and contained provisions to base payment for hospital inpatient services on predetermined rates per DRG. PPS represents a major departure from the traditional reimbursement system—cost-based reimbursement—in that payment bears no relationship to length of stay, services rendered, or costs of care. For a given discharge, a hospital with actual costs below the designated PPS rate for a given DRG is permitted to keep the difference in payment. If discharge costs exceed the payment level, the hospital is required to absorb the loss. Payments for hospital-based physician services, which had previously been reimbursed according to a cost-based fee system, are included in the hospital’s PPS rate.
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____ is defined as an acute hypertensive episode without evidence of end-organ damage, even though the patient has risk factors to develop acute end-organ damage.
A. Hypertensive emergency B. Hypertensive crisis C. Hypertensive urgency D. Antecedent hypertension
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You cannot find material on a Gram stained cerebrospinal fluid slide to focus on using the 10X objective. You should
A) raise the condenser to allow more light on the slide. B) turn the slide over. It is upside down. C) focus on the frosted end of the slide and then move to the specimen area. D) reset the microscope for Köhler illumination and refocus.