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

Author: Mayes, Rick, 1969-
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Physical Description: xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Berenson, Robert A.

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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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0801884543 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801884542 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-235) and index.

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