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Payments from the Government for such nonhospital services are calculated on the basis of cost.

Therefore, to estimate the total number of strokes (hospital and nonhospital), an appropriate adjustment was made in the analysis.

Additionally, premiums paid by beneficiaries for nonhospital Medicare coverage will rise, starting next year.

"The nonhospital environment wins them over."

This adjustment conservatively assumed that 10% of strokes were nonhospital strokes.

Another limitation of the present study is the lack of documented information on the rate of nonhospital stroke.

Although complications can occur anywhere and are relatively rare, the report said, such cases underscore the importance of oversight in nonhospital settings.

The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.

California finds spending per case in Los Angeles is double the cost in San Francisco, which relies on volunteer agencies and nonhospital care whenever possible.

Two population-based stroke incidence studies, [ 7, 17] reported that the proportion of patients with stroke without hospitalization (nonhospital strokes) was 5% and 15%, respectively.

"It is important to remember that we are still talking about net increases to the New York health care industry, even if there will be some redistribution to nonhospital providers."

The Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association argues that the centers are a boon for patients because infections are less likely to occur in nonhospital settings.

Thus, as a trend toward more and more outpatient or nonhospital care increases in coming years, as it surely must, it will not be to the economic advantage of physicians.

He helped organize a system of nonhospital psychiatric assistance in the USSR and worked out questions dealing with teaching in psychiatry and prevention of mental illness.

Under the budget agreement, the $43.80 monthly Medicare premium for doctors' care and other nonhospital charges will gradually rise to $105.40 by 2007, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Since 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has documented 33 outbreaks of hepatitis B and C as a result of negligent injection safety practices in nonhospital healthcare settings.

In 1997 Congress established per-person Medicare spending limits, or therapy cap for nonhospital outpatient therapy, but responding to concerns that some people with Medicare need extensive services, it has since placed temporary moratoriums on the caps.

A Guttmacher Institute survey of abortion providers estimated that early medical abortions accounted for 17% of all nonhospital abortions and slightly over one-quarter of abortions before 9 weeks gestation in the United States in 2008.

New York plans to raise its payments for outpatient visits, now capped at $60 for hospitals and $75 for nonhospital clinics, to $250 for an initial evaluation of AIDS infection and $100 for a follow-up, plus the costs of tests and medications.

Hard data on safety is hard to come by, but one study published in the April 2000 issue of Pediatrics, the medical journal, found that in 95 pediatric cases in which there was a problem during sedation, the patient was three times more likely to die in a nonhospital setting.

A. Research studies suggest that about 85 percent of primary care that is delivered in this country can be delivered as well and probably at a lower cost by nurse practitioners, nurse clinical specialists or nurse midwives in nonhospital settings or in primary care centers affiliated with hospitals.