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

By: Mayes, Rick, 1969-.
Contributor(s): Berenson, Robert A | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Medicare | Medicare -- Claims administration -- United States | Medical care, Cost of -- United States | Hospitals -- Prospective payment -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 368.4/2600973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.