Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care - Mayes, Rick, 1969-; Berenson, Robert A.; ebrary, Inc. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Medicare; Medicare -- Claims administration -- United States; Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Hospitals -- Prospective payment -- United States; Electronic books