Interestingly, previous studies showed that reimbursement does impact what surgery is performed for breast cancer, since surgical biopsy has been shown to be more expensive than minimally invasive biopsies.
Because system issues such as pharmacy and reimbursement policies can impact adherence behavior, we sought to determine the effect of prescription size on patients' adherence to hyperlipidemia therapy.
Participants were concerned about the time and supplies that are required, issues that could impact reimbursement by increasing overhead or decreasing patient flow in a busy office practice.
"At some point, shrinking Medicare reimbursements will inevitably impact our ability to offer this high level of patient care," Mr. Kelly said.
Postoperative readmissions have been proposed by Medicare as a quality metric and can impact provider reimbursement.
The changing landscape of reimbursement is likely to impact CPAP therapy and delivery of services significantly.
The design of hospital environments is receiving increased attention as an important contributor to patient satisfaction and experience, which have a direct impact on reimbursement.
Instead, this study presents a set of approaches which have been taken in the past and follows them to their impact upon reimbursement.
We used hazard models and regression analysis to identify ICD9-CM codes that are predictors of readmission and their impact on reimbursement costs, with regard to ICU events.
Changing the name of the test to something other than ANA might, for instance, impact on reimbursement policies in several jurisdictions and, therefore, was considered not feasible at this point of time.
