(n.) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
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Payor
Definition:
(n.) See Payer.
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(1) Recent court decisions since the landmark Wickline v. The State of California case in 1987 have addressed this issue of shared liability between payors and providers.
(2) Even more worrisome to these institutions is the possibility of other third-party payors following Medicare's lead and converting to this reimbursement plan.
(3) Such requests arise from third-party payors such as insurance companies, state workers compensation departments, and other systems of disability determination.
(4) All adult medical admissions (N = 30,097) were analyzed for a three-year period at a large academic medical center using the DRG "all payor" classification scheme in effect for New York State.
(5) Medicare patients had (on average) a longer hospital length of stay and total hospital cost compared to patients from Medicaid, Blue Cross, and other commercial payors.
(6) These differences could not be explained by differences in age level and payor status of sample populations.
(7) The criteria should undergo complete specificity and sensitivity testing, be expanded to include more outcome measures, and be applied to other geographic areas before use by other third party payors.
(8) In an attempt to control costs and increase the efficiency of health care, it is being increasingly delivered in alternate health-care systems where third-party payors influence the access, use, and quality of that care.
(9) Analysis of 858 pulmonary medicine patients by payor (Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, and commercial insurance) in these non-CC stratified pulmonary medicine DRGs for a three-year period demonstrated that patients with more CCs per DRG for each payor generated higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, a greater percentage of procedures per patient, financial risk under DRG payment, more outliers, and a higher mortality, compared to patients in these same DRGs with fewer CCs.
(10) Analysis of 12,340 medical patients by payor (Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, and commercial insurance) in these non-CC-stratified medical DRGs for a three-year period demonstrated that patients with more CCs per DRG for each payor generated higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, a greater percentage of procedures per patient, higher financial risk under DRG payment, and a higher mortality, compared with patients in these same DRGs with fewer CCs.
(11) The forces of technology and changing payor requirements continue to move many surgical procedures to the ambulatory setting.
(12) This article examines factors contributing to this reduction in autonomy and reviews potential impacts on the profession, patients, payors, health care organizations, and managers.
(13) However, present financing of GME by Medicare is linked to payment for inpatient service, and few other payors pay explicitly for education.
(14) Diagnosis serves to differentiate the "products"; however, diagnoses are grouped by payor and similar treatment cost experiences to create a limited set of managerially meaningful case types.
(15) In All Payor Systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross and other commercial insurers pay by the DRG mode; the state of New York has been All Payor since 1 January 1988.
(16) Our findings were as follows: (1) With charges as a measure of expense under both payment schemes, all clinical departments had large groups of unprofitable patients: Medicare, $12,895,038; all-payor system, $15,553,893.
(17) A changing clinical environment both because of diseases such as AIDS, which were not anticipated when these clinical codes were created, and because of the changing relationship between the physician, the patient, and the payor for the physician's care creates dilemmas concerning the rule of confidentiality.
(18) Both Medicare and Medicaid patients had (on average) a longer hospital stay and total hospital cost compared with patients from Blue Cross and other commercial payors.
(19) Developing a monolithic vocabulary would require a massive effort, and its existence would not guarantee its use by third-party payors, by practicing clinicians, or by developers of electronic medical information systems.
(20) In addition, the DRG system only applies to Medicare payments; the Norwegian experience demonstrates that this system may result in significant shifting of costs onto other payors.