Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care /
Mayes, Rick,1969-
Berenson, Robert A.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
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.
Medicare.
Medicare
Medical care, Cost of
Hospitals