Sentence examples for for a given procedure from inspiring English sources

Typically, doctors and hospitals receive twenty or thirty per cent less from Medicare for a given procedure than they do from private insurers.

The Cleveland Clinic, for example, has about a hundred different contracts with insurance carriers, each with a different rate for a given procedure.

What was probably more surprising to most readers was the huge price differentials for identical procedures — not only across the United States, but even within American cities, where prices for a given procedure can vary tenfold.

To determine how much of the medical bill they will pay, insurers calculate the so-called reasonable and customary charge for a given procedure or medical service and then pay a percentage of that amount, which is frequently much less than the doctor's or hospital's actual bill.

Medicare then decides how much to pay for a given procedure by multiplying the RVU by its annual "conversion factor" (about $37), adjusting for geography (because life is more expensive in New York than in Kansas), and adding a little for malpractice insurance.

Specialty hospitals' financial success is part of what rankles their large competitors, especially given that they get paid the same for a given procedure.

26 In the NNIS risk index the duration of the surgical procedure is defined in terms of the number of minutes that an operation lasts; the 75th percentile for the duration of a given procedure (as determined on the basis of data from the CDC) is rounded up to the nearest hour to produce T, the time point that distinguishes procedures of long and short duration.

These attempt to measure how difficult a given procedure is for the physician how much concentration it takes, how much skill, how many zillions of hours you have to practice with the tweezers, or whatever.

Hence, it may be technically more precise to report the dose-length product or CT dose index, but the associated risk with a given procedure or for a given reference patient is not displayed.

Note that several Hospital Resource Group codes may exist for any given procedure; as a result, these data may not accurately describe mortality rates for a specific procedure.

For example, the number of dementia sufferers is growing, and, for any given procedure, those with the condition stay in hospital twice as long as those without.