Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Report to the Congress, Medicare Payment Policy
Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Report to the Congress Medicare Payment Policy
Author: Medicar Payment Advisory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Report to the Congress
Author: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
"I"Also includes appendices (p. 135-169), and tables, graphs, and bibliographies throughout.
Medicare Payment Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Report to the Congress
Author: MedPAC's Annual March Report to the Congress on Medicare Payment Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Medicare Handbook
Author: Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care
Author: Rick MayesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888875
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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) and how providers have responded to encroachments on their professional and financial autonomy. They conclude with a discussion of the problems with the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and offer prescriptions for how policy makers can use Medicare payment policy to drive improvements in the U.S. health care system. Mayes and Berenson draw from interviews with more than sixty-five major policy makers—including former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin, U.S. Representatives Pete Stark and Henry Waxman, former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, and former administrators of the Health Care Financing Administration Gail Wilensky, Bruce Vladeck, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and Tom Scully—to explore how this payment system worked and its significant effects on the U.S. medical landscape in the past twenty years. They argue that, although managed care was an important agent of change in the 1990s, the private sector has not been the major health care innovator in the United States; rather, Medicare’s transition to PPS both initiated and repeatedly intensified the economic restructuring of the U.S. health care system.
Report to the Congress
Author: Medicare Laboratory Payment Policy
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309183618
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Clinical laboratory tests play an integral role in helping physicians diagnose and treat patients. New developments in laboratory technology offer the prospect of improvements in diagnosis and care, but will place an increased burden on the payment system. Medicare, the federal program providing coverage of health-care services for the elderly and disabled, is the largest payer of clinical laboratory services. Originally designed in the early 1980s, Medicare's payment policy methodology for outpatient laboratory services has not evolved to take into account technology, market, and regulatory changes, and is now outdated. This report examines the current Medicare payment methodology for outpatient clinical laboratory services in the context of environmental and technological trends, evaluates payment policy alternatives, and makes recommendations to improve the system.