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

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index.
LCCN 2006010566
ISBN0801884543
ISBN9780801884542

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