Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore :) Physical details: xiv, 245 p. : ill.-
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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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