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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care and Social Assistance

Collection Instrument Questions

(This question is asked in the following collection instruments: HC-62113, HC-62140, HC-62200)

Please select the products and services that are the most appropriate for your business. If book figures are not available, estimates are acceptable.

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(This question is asked in the following collection instruments: HC-62140, HC-62161, HC-62191, HC-62199, HC-62200, HC-62300)   

Negative amounts are not allowed for this question. Please enter the amount of zero ‘0’ and then at the end of the survey, Item 31: Remarks, write your loss amount and reference that this negative amount is for Item 28, 3b. Investment and property income. 

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(This question is asked in the following collection instruments: HC-62113, HC-62121, HC-62140, HC-62151, HC-62161, HC-62191, HC-62199, HC-62200, HC-62300)

Measures of clinical performance are quantifiable metrics used to evaluate the success of any clinical activity or clinical function. Respond with “No” if your company did not measure clinical performance.  

Here is a listing that might help you identify the measures of clinical performance used by the establishment:

  • A reduction in unplanned readmission rates. 
  • A reduction in the percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls resulting in a major injury. 
  • A reduction in the rate of unplanned acute care hospitalizations. 
  • A decrease in the rate of patients accessing services in an emergency department for conditions that would generally be treated in the office setting. 
  • An increase in the rate of children receiving preventative dental sealants on permanent molars. 
  • A reduction in response times to emergencies.               
  • A reduction in average patients’ wait times. 
  • A reduced rate of adverse patient outcomes or reactions. 
  • A reduction in blood or urine culture contamination rates. 
  • Counts for mishandling of patient specimens. 
  • Rates of medication or treatment errors.

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If your company sold services to foreign business, those located outside the United States (exported services), respond with “Yes.”  Respond with “No” if your company did not purchase services from foreign businesses.

Here is a listing that might help you identify Exported Services used by the establishment:

  • Direct disaster aid abroad.
  • Foreign aid grants.
  • Food aid abroad.
  • Telehealth therapy.
  • Doctors going abroad to provide services overseas (eye, plastic surgery, dental, etc.).
  • Clinical trials.

If your company purchased services from foreign business, those located outside the United States (imported services), respond with “Yes.”  Respond with “No” if your company did not purchase services from foreign businesses.

Here is a listing that might help you identify Imported Services used by the establishment:

 

 

  • Medical services from abroad.
  • Clinical trials.
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    If you use form view, i.e. entering data via Centurion, then just enter as normal as the description/code is shown and available.  

    This affects only MU spreadsheet users. A discrepancy was found for Product Code 7004955000 Medical care management services between the survey view/Preview PDF and the downloaded MU spreadsheet. Form HC-62300, Item 22: Detail of sales, product description line for "Medical care management services," Product Code 7004955000, is missing when reporting via the spreadsheet. In addition, all the line numbering in the spreadsheet is off starting at line 9 because of this. If you have revenue from this service and are reporting using the spreadsheet, report "Medical care management services" by: Using one of the "Add" products and entering "7004955000" as PROD_CODE_90000000xx, and a value in PROD_90000000xx. See "Spreadsheet Example."

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    Page Last Revised - April 4, 2023
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