Name and discuss three types of patients
(1) Hospital inpatients are acutely ill individuals who are treated in an area of the hospital where patients generally stay overnight. (2) A hospital outpatient is a patient who is evaluated or treated at a hospital facility but is not admitted as an inpatient. (3) Long-term acute care hospital patients are admitted to a long-term care hospital (LTCH) and are generally more acutely ill than patients in other long-term care settings.
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________ is when the plaintiff and the physician's insurance company reach an agreement and the case does not go to court.
A. Contributory negligence B. Settlement C. Statute of limitations D. Arbitration
Each hospital negotiates a rate for MS-DRGs based on which of the following?
A. labor B. geographic location C. supply costs D. all of these are factors in the rate
List three examples of individual identifiers that are protected under HIPAA.
What will be an ideal response?