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  2. What is the Medicare Inpatient Only (IPO) list?

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    The Inpatient Only (IPO) list is a list of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes and descriptions that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases each year.

  3. Ambulatory Payment Classification - Wikipedia

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    APCs or Ambulatory Payment Classifications are the United States government's method of paying for facility outpatient services for the Medicare (United States) program. A part of the Federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997 made the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services create a new Medicare "Outpatient Prospective Payment System" (OPPS) for hospital outpatient services -analogous to the ...

  4. Does Medicare pay for mental health care? Here’s which ...

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    Traditional Medicare pays for both inpatient (Part A, hospital coverage) and outpatient (Part B, medical coverage) mental health treatment from psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social ...

  5. Prospective payment system - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, CMS changed the reimbursement system for outpatient care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to include a prospective payment system for Medicaid and Medicare. [2] Under this system, health centers receive a fixed, per-visit payment for any visit by a patient with Medicaid, regardless of the length or intensity of the visit.

  6. What do Medicare Part D drug plans not cover? - AOL

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    Original Medicare includes Part A, which covers the medications a person receives when they are an inpatient at a hospital, and Part B, which covers limited outpatient drugs, such as those that a ...

  7. Utilization management - Wikipedia

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    Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...

  8. 5 big changes to Medicare 2025 plans you should know ... - AOL

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    Open enrollment for 2025 Medicare plans runs through December 7. Some major changes in 2025 include a new $2,000 out-of-pocket max under Part D, eliminating the plan’s “donut hole” coverage ...

  9. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.