1.   For many patients, brief problem-orientated outpatient care seems to be a very satisfactory means of helping them tackle the difficulties.

2.   It should be possible to compare the cost effectiveness of community based clinics with that of hospital outpatient care.

3.   Outpatient care is generally less expensive than a stay in hospital.

4.   Part B Medicare covers doctor visits and other outpatient care.

5.   America Service Group provides on-site health-care programs as well as off-site hospitalization and specialty outpatient care.

6.   Americans who seek counseling spend an average of eight sessions in outpatient care, according to these surveys.

7.   As insurers worked at decreasing the length of hospital stays, they assumed that outpatient care is always less expensive.

8.   But to encourage cheaper modes of treatment, the government continued to pay for the full cost of outpatient care.

9.   Companies like Integrated Health and RoTech are hired by managed-care concerns to handle outpatient care.

10.   Currently, Medicaid money must be spent on hospital care, not on less expensive outpatient care in clinics.