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WGU C425 Topic 2 - What Are Outpatient Services And Primary Care?
WGU C425 Topic 2 - What Are Outpatient Services And Primary Care?
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WGU C425 Topic 2 - What Are OutpatientServices And Primary Care?
What is outpatient service? ✔️Ans - Any health care service that does
not require an overnight stay in a health care institution.
What is ambulatory care? ✔️Ans - Diagnostic and therapeutic services
and treatment for the walking patient.
What are 4 reasons for the growth of outpatient services? ✔️Ans - 1)
Financial reimbursement
2) Development of new technology
3) Utilization Controls (inpatient stays being discouraged by payers)
4) Social factors
What are the 12 different types of outpatient care settings and methods of
delivery? ✔️Ans - 1) Private Practice
2) Hospital-based Outpatient Clinics
3) Freestanding Facilities
4) Mobile Facilities
5) Telephone or Internet Triage
6) Home Care
7) Hospice Care
8) Long-term Care
9) Public Health Services
10) Community Health Centers
11) Free Clinics
12) Alternative Medicine Clinics
What are some of the characteristics of private practice? ✔️Ans - -They
are office-based
-The are the backbone of ambulatory care
-They offer the vast majority of primary care services
-Limited examination and testing can be performed
-Visits are short in duration
, Why do a lot of private practices merge into groups? ✔️Ans - -Due to
uncertainties within the US healthcare delivery system
-Competition from large health organizations
-High cost of establishing a new practice
-Complexity of billings and collections
-Increased external controls over private practice
What are some of the characteristics of hospital-based outpatient clinics?
✔️Ans - -They are prominently found in inner-city areas
-Community's safety net, providing primary care to the indigent and
uninsured
-A key source of profits for hospitals
What are the 5 main types of Hospital-based outpatient services? ✔️Ans
- 1) Clinical (typically for uninsured or research)
2) Surgical (same day surgery)
3) Home health (postacute care and rehabilitation)
4) Women's health
5) Traditional emergency
What are the 3 main types of freestanding facilities? ✔️Ans - 1) Walk-in
clinics
2) Urgent Care Centers
3) Surgicenters
What services do walk-in clinics provide? ✔️Ans - Outpatient services
that range from basic primary care to urgent care and are generally used on
a nonroutine, episodic basis.
What services do urgent care centers provide? ✔️Ans - A wide range of
routine services for basic and acute conditions. The main advantages of
walk-in clinics and urgent care centers are convenience of location, evening
and weekend hours, and availability of services on a walk-in, no-
appointment basis.
What services do surgicenters provide? ✔️Ans - A full range of services
for surgeries that can be performed on an outpatient basis and do not
require overnight hospitalization.
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