Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care /

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Author / Creator:Mayes, Rick, 1969-
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Description:xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6447513
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Other authors / contributors:Berenson, Robert A.
ISBN:0801884543 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801884542 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 0. Acknowledgments
  • 0. List of Acronyms
  • 0. 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
  • 0. Conclusion
  • 0. Appendix
  • 0. Notes
  • 0. References
  • 0. Index