Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care [electronic resource] / Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 245 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 368.4/2600973 22
LOC classification:
  • RA412.3 .M39 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.

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.

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