Ambulatory Payment Classification
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ambulatory-payment-classification-191-6827946
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Ambulatory Payment Classification
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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 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 Medicare prospective payment system for hospital inpatients known as Diagnosis-related group or DRGs. This OPPS, was impleme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_Payment_Classification
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2019-06-14T01:37:44Z
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