Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U. S. Health Care.
Mayes, Rick.
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U. S. Health Care. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (264 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Origins and Policy Gestation -- 2 Development, Growing Appeal, and Passage of Prospective Payment -- 3 The Phase-In Years and Beginning of "Rough Justice" for Hospitals -- 4 Medicare Policy's Subordination to Budget Policy, Increased Hospital Cost Shifting, and the Rise of Managed Care -- 5 The Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Reforms for Physician Payment -- 6 The Calm before the Storm -- 7 The Reckoning and Reversal -- Conclusion. How Medicare Does and Should Shape U.S. Health Care -- Appendix. Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
health care system.
9780801888878
Medicare.
Medicare-Claims administration-United States.
Medical care, Cost of-United States.
Hospitals-Prospective payment-United States.
Electronic books.
RA412.3 .M39 2006
368.4/2600973
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U. S. Health Care. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (264 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Origins and Policy Gestation -- 2 Development, Growing Appeal, and Passage of Prospective Payment -- 3 The Phase-In Years and Beginning of "Rough Justice" for Hospitals -- 4 Medicare Policy's Subordination to Budget Policy, Increased Hospital Cost Shifting, and the Rise of Managed Care -- 5 The Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Reforms for Physician Payment -- 6 The Calm before the Storm -- 7 The Reckoning and Reversal -- Conclusion. How Medicare Does and Should Shape U.S. Health Care -- Appendix. Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
health care system.
9780801888878
Medicare.
Medicare-Claims administration-United States.
Medical care, Cost of-United States.
Hospitals-Prospective payment-United States.
Electronic books.
RA412.3 .M39 2006
368.4/2600973