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

Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care / Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson.

Author/creator	Mayes, Rick, 1969-
Other author/creator	Berenson, Robert A.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Description	xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Medicare. Medicare--Claims administration --United States. Medical care, Cost of--United States. Hospitals--Prospective payment --United States. Medicare--economics. Prospective Payment System--economics --United States. Costs and Cost Analysis--United States. Health Policy--United States. Managed Care Programs--economics --United States.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
LCCN	2006010566
ISBN	0801884543
ISBN	9780801884542

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	WT 31 M997M 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold