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

Main Author:	Mayes, Rick, 1969-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Berenson, Robert A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Medicare. Medicare > Claims administration > United States. Medical care, Cost of > United States. Hospitals > Prospective payment > United States.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10188452

Table of 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.