Title Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care / Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) : illustrations Contents Origins and policy gestation -- Development, growing appeal, and passage of prospective payment -- The phase-in years and beginning of "rough justice" for hospitals -- Medicare policy's subordination to budget policy, increased hospital cost shifting, and the rise of managed care -- The resource-based relative-value scale reforms for physician payment -- The calm before the storm -- The reckoning and reversal -- Conclusion : how medicare does and should shape U.S. health care Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Medicare. Medicare -- Claims administration -- United States Medical care, Cost of -- United States Hospitals -- Prospective payment -- United States Medical policy. Medicare -- economics Prospective Payment System -- economics Medicare Costs and Cost Analysis Health Policy Managed Care Programs -- economics MEDICAL -- Medicaid & Medicare. Medical policy Hospitals -- Prospective payment Medical care, Cost of Medicare Medicare -- Claims administration SUBJECT United States Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Berenson, Robert A. ISBN 9780801888878 0801888875

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