Geographic adjustment in Medicare payment. Phase I, Improving accuracy [electronic resource] / Improving accuracy Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Margaret Edmunds and Frank A. Sloan, editors. - Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012. - xxx, 206 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Labor markets and payment areas -- The hospital wage index -- Smoothing the borders of labor markets and payment areas -- Geographic practice cost indexes -- Transitions.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780309211468 (electronic bk.)




Medicare--Economic aspects.


Electronic books.

RA412.3 / .I57 2012

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