Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care

by Rick Mayes, Robert A. Berenson, Robert A. Berenson MD

Book Overview

This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson, M.D., explain how Medicare's innovative payment system triggered shifts in power away from the providers (hospitals and doctors) to the payers (government insurers and employers)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884543
• ISBN13: 9780801884542
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"