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1. What is the main objective of this chapter?
2. Define outpatient care. What are several key changes that have been instrumental in shifting the balance between inpatient and outpatient services?
3. The term "ambulatory care" is used interchangeably with "outpatient services." Explain the diffe...
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Bristol 1
Lori Bristol
Susan Hawkins
HCM 2000
11 July 2019
CHAPTER 7 REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What is the main objective of this chapter?
To discuss what outpatient services are and different types of primary care.
2. Define outpatient care. What are several key changes that have been instrumental in
shifting the balance between inpatient and outpatient services?
Outpatient care refers to any health care services that do not require an overnight stay in an
institution of health care deliver. Reimbursement, technologic factors, utilization control factors,
and social factors are key changes that have been instrumental in shifting the balance between
inpatient and outpatient services.
3. The term "ambulatory care" is used interchangeably with "outpatient services."
Explain the difference.
Outpatient is more comprehensive. Outpatient can include long-term care services.
4. What are some of the reasons solo practitioners are joining group practices?
Solo practitioners are joining group practices due to uncertainties created by rapid changes in
the health care delivery system, contracting my MCOs with consolidated rather than solo
entities, competition from large health care delivery organizations, high cost of establishing a
new practice, complexity of billings and collections in a multiplayer system, and increased
external controls over the private practice of medicine.
5. Why is the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions?
What are the consequences?
Patients do not always have access to primary care, or they feel that their issue is urgent, when
it is not. The consequence is higher health care costs.
6. Why is it important for hospital administrators to regard outpatient care as a key
component of their overall business strategy?
While inpatient revenues are falling, outpatient services have constituted a key source of
income for hospitals.
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