Author Question: When office-based services are performed in a facility, such as a hospital or outpatient setting, ... (Read 81 times)

rosent76 · **on:** Jun 27, 2018

When office-based services are performed in a facility, such as a hospital or outpatient setting, payments are reduced because the doctor did not provide supplies, utilities, or the costs of running the facility. This is known as the __________ differential.
a. fee schedule
b. limiting charge
c. resource utilization
d. site of service

Question 2

Services provided by nonphysician practitioners may also be reported to Medicare as __________ to the supervising physician's service, and as a result, services are reimbursed at 100 percent of the Medicare physician fee schedule and Medicare pays 80 percent of that amount directly to the physician.
a. allowable charges
b. incident
c. limiting charges
d. price-based costs