Rural hospitals under Medicare's prospective payment system
By: directed by Carol Carter ; major contributors: Sharon Arnold ... [et al.].
Contributors: United States. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
Series: Technical report series / Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; Technical report series (United States. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission)
Publisher: Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Rural hospitals; Prospective payment; Evaluation; Medicare; Finance
Notes: "Congressional report C-91-03."

October 1991.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: 1. Summary; title: 2. Medicare payment policy changes and hospital financial performance; title: 3. Design features of PPS that disadvantage rural hospitals; title: 4. Do certain hospitals need protection?; title: 5. Other Medicare policy issues affecting rural hospitals; title: Appendixes.