The nurse managers of a hospital are working to identify the physical skills and actual nursing time spent to accomplish specific procedures. This work is most closely associated with which type of reimbursement strategy?
1. Discounted fee-for-service
2. Diagnostic-related group
3. Capitation
4. Resource-based relative value scale
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Explanation: 1. This is a payment method that offers to pay the provider a specific percentage of the provider's usual charge, or offers a reduced rate.
2. DRGs are per-stay reimbursement plans that focus on a single episode of care related to a diagnosis, and include all predetermined expected services delivered for that episode of care.
3. This is a prepayment to a provider to deliver healthcare services to enrollees of a health plan.
4. In this system, payments for services are determined by the resource needed to provide the service. Managers work to assure that practice approximates this scale.
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