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  2. 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 ...

  3. Resource-based relative value scale - Wikipedia

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    The CPT Committee issues new codes twice each year. A separate committee, the Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), [7] meets three times a year to set new values, [8] determines the Relative Value Units (RVUs) for each new code, and revalues all existing codes at least once every five years. The RUC has 29 members, 23 ...

  4. Chargemaster - Wikipedia

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    Chargemasters include thousands of hospital services, medical procedures, equipment fees, drugs, supplies, and diagnostic evaluations such as imaging and blood tests. [6] Each item in the chargemaster is assigned a unique identifier code and a set price that are used to generate patient bills. [ 6 ]

  5. Hospitals Are Actually Charging a ‘Facility Fee ... - AOL

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    John Moore/GettyBy Michelle Andrews | KHNWhen Arielle Harrison’s 9-year-old needed to see a pediatric specialist at Yale New Haven Health System in June, a telehealth visit seemed like a great ...

  6. Passenger facility charge - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, it was estimated that airports across the U.S. charged $260 million in passenger facility fees per month. The collection in all of 2017 was $3.286 billion; in 2018, it was $3.514 billion. [4] In 2014, the collection was approximately $3 billion. [3]

  7. Resort fee - Wikipedia

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    A resort fee, also called a facility fee, [1] a destination fee, [2] an amenity fee, [3] an urban fee, [4] [5] a resort charge, or a hidden hotel booking fee, [6] [7] is an additional fee that a guest is charged by an accommodation provider, usually calculated on a per day basis, in addition to a base room rate. Resort fees originated in North ...

  8. Split billing - Wikipedia

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    Split billing is the division of a bill for service into two or more parts. Bills may be split to divide work between clients, payers or for reimbursement to different service providers for performing a shared service.

  9. User fee - Wikipedia

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    A user fee is a fee, tax, or impost payment paid to a facility owner or operator by a facility user as a necessary condition for using the facility. People pay user fees for the use of many public services and facilities .