(1) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.
(2) A study was undertaken to determine the magnitude of the charges and costs and the sources of reimbursements for the care of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) patients in an urban setting, Orleans Parish (County), Louisiana, in 1971.
(3) Understanding the full effects of the change in health care delivery reimbursement on patient care and nursing care will require research and investigation.
(4) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
(5) We believe that new physician reimbursement codes specific for geriatric assessment should be established in the Current Procedural Technology (CPT-4) manual and that reimbursement for GA should be specifically provided under Part B of Medicare.
(6) Many state Medicaid programs limit the number of reimbursable medications that a patient can receive.
(7) Concomitant with this changing mix of ownerships, revised reimbursement plans are being proposed for psychiatry.
(8) One group relied primarily on increased third-party reimbursements to offset the end of basic federal grants.
(9) The new method will significantly affect global, technical, and professional reimbursement.
(10) The central reimbursement method used in Medicare risk contracting (adjusted average per capita cost) does not adequately control for enrollment selection, unmet medical need, or recent regional cost variations.
(11) Even more worrisome to these institutions is the possibility of other third-party payors following Medicare's lead and converting to this reimbursement plan.
(12) Fraser discusses the results and implications of a survey conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the impact on hospices of the Medicare reimbursement program authorized by Congress in 1983.
(13) Physicians not only need better preparation to meet the challenges of caring for frail older patients, but they also need changes in reimbursement policies so that they can afford to spend the time needed to manage the complexities inherent in the doctor-patient-family caregiver relationship.
(14) To determine the prevalence of off-label anticancer drug use (ie, using drugs to treat conditions other than those listed on the Food and Drug Administration's approved drug label), the extent of reimbursement denials for these uses, and the effect of denials on the treatment of cancer patients.
(15) In France 15% of prescriptions include at least 1 benzodiazepine and 5 compounds of this class appear among the 30 most frequently prescribed of state reimbursed medications.
(16) The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of health insurance coverage research universities offer their employees and the extent to which these employers offer options providing for reimbursement of services of independent nurse practitioners.
(17) Methods of reimbursement to validate autopsy as a medical act should be sought, and voluntary and government regulation to assure the role of autopsy in quality assurance programs is suggested.
(18) We found that the program could account for reimbursement of 51.8% of its budget through patient care services, requiring 5.2% to be subsidized through state grants and 43.1% through federal graduate medical education reimbursement.
(19) Cost estimates for diagnostic evaluation were calculated by means of the schedule of prevailing rates for Texas employed by the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services for physician reimbursement.
(20) Total hospital costs (exclusive of Diagnostic Related Group reimbursement.
Restitution
Definition:
(v.) The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
(v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
(v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
(v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(2) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(3) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(4) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(5) Therapeutic action included application of antibiotics, surgical valve removal, and delayed restitution.
(6) The monoexponential pattern of restitution was seen with model-independent descriptors of relaxation as well as with tau.
(7) This study suggests that restitution of amniotic fluid volume in human pregnancies complicated by severe oligohydramnios does not acutely alter the umbilical artery PI.
(8) Tetrapolar impedance rheocardiography was used to study postextrasystolic potentiation and mechanic restitution.
(9) To determine whether centrally released vasopressin influences thirst, observations of osmotic thirst threshold, osmotic load excretion and postloading restitution of plasma osmolality were made in dogs in control experiments and during infusion of AVP antagonists into the third ventricle.
(10) It was found that chromosome fragments restitute with time, whereas the dicentrics are formed very quickly and their frequency remains the same, despite the decline in the number of chromosome breaks at later recovery times.
(11) A comparative evaluation of the effects of soaps and detergents on pH behaviour and lipids level on the skin surface and duration of their restitution was carried out.
(12) [The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986.
(13) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(14) The tissue restitution was better in suture anastomosis carried out with absorbable sutures than performed with non-absorbable suture material.
(15) It is concluded that grafting can be successfully employed in the treatment of central ulcers, as it not only restitutes tissue integrity, but also preserves useful vision.
(16) Following factors were obtained regardless whether investigations were carried out in normals or in psychiatric patients: A static factor, a dynamic factor, a stimulus-specific factor and a restitution-dependent factor.
(17) The apparent protective mechanisms of this prostanoid under the present conditions may involve mucus and fluid effusion that could allow restitution of the surface epithelial layer.
(18) The mechanical restitution of the left ventricle of closed-chest dogs was modeled as a monoexponential relation, using peak single-beat elastance as a measure of contractile strength.
(19) Transplants of 1-3 rat pancreases have proven to restitute streptozotocin induced diabetes in athymic nude mice.
(20) There was relevant hemodynamic irritation of perfusion in dopplersonographic examination cranial of compressed vessel, which normalized after restitution.