Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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Table of 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.