Mayes, Rick,  1969- <br/><br/>
Medicare prospective payment and the shaping of U.S. health care  [electronic resource] / 
Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2006. 
 - xiv, 245 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-235) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicare.<br/>Medicare--Claims administration--United States.<br/>Medical care, Cost of--United States.<br/>Hospitals--Prospective payment--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA412.3  / .M39 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>368.4/2600973