| Description |
xiv, 245 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Medicare.
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Medicare -- Claims administration -- United States.
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Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
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Hospitals -- Prospective payment -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Berenson, Robert A.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0801884543 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780801884542 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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