Trends in special Medicare payments and service utilization for rural areas in the 1990s /

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Imprint:Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 192 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11396900
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Other authors / contributors:Farley, Donna O.
Shugarman, Lisa R.
Taylor, Pat.
Inkelas, Moira.
Ashwood, J. Scott.
Zeng, Feng.
Harris, Katherine M.
RAND Health.
Rand Corporation.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
ISBN:9780833056863
0833056867
0833032135
9780833032133
Notes:"RAND Health."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
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Summary:This report analyzes special payments that Medicare has been making to rural providers. These special payments are intended to support the rural health care infrastructure to help ensure access to care for Medicare beneficiaries. The research provides a comprehensive overview of these payments, including documentation of the supply of providers, trends in payments, and Medicare costs per beneficiary. Four types of special payments were examined: (1) payments to sole community hospitals, Medicare-dependent hospitals, and rural referral centers; (2) reimbursements to rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers; (3) bonus payments to physicians in rural health professional shortage areas; and (4) capitation payments in rural counties.
Other form:Print version: Trends in special medicare payments and service utilization for rural areas in the 1990s. Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2002 0833032135