Report to Congress
Subtitle: the relationship of Medicare PPS to all payer systems and cost-shifting
By: Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services
Contributors: Sobaski, William J.; Cotterill, Philip; Bobula, Joel; Wallack, Stanley; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary; United States. Health Care Financing Administration. Office of Research; Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. Health Policy Center; Health Systems Research, Inc; Urban Institute; Georgetown University
Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Hospitals; Health insurance; Prospective payment; Cost shifting; Medical care; Medicare; Cost control
Other titles: Relationship of Medicare PPS to all payer systems and cost-shifting.; Relationship of Medicare prospective payment system to all payer systems and cost-shifting.
Notes: "Primary responsibility for preparing this report was assigned to the Health Care financing Administration (HCFA), and Office of Research and Demonstrations (ORD) ... The report was prepared in the Office of Research (OR) ... William J. Sobaski, Director of the Division of Reimbursement and Economic Studies (DRES), OR, served as the Project Director. Philip Cotterill, Ph.D., and Joel Bobula, both of DRES, OR, assisted him ... Most of the original research performed for this report was conducted through the Brandeis University Health Policy Center directed by Stanley Wallack, Ph.D. ... [and assisted by personnel from Health Systems Research, Inc., the Urban Institute and Georgetown University]"--Page iii.

"January 1987."

Includes bibliographical references.

Photocopy. [Baltimore, Maryland?] : Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, [2002]. 28 cm.

CMS copy in folder: Relationship of Medicare PPS to all payer systems and cost-shifting / Report to Congress / January 1987.