Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care / Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson.
Publisher's description: This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert...
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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.