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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823562203321

Autore

Mayes Rick <1969->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8018-8887-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BerensonRobert A

Disciplina

368.4/2600973

Soggetti

Medicare

Medicare - Claims administration - United States

Medical care, Cost of - United States

Hospitals - Prospective payment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.