title: State rate review: a critical assessment.
abstract: In response to rising hospital costs, several states established rate setting programs, which now affect about one-fourth of the nation's hospitals.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D005249:Fees and Charges / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D009518:New York; D014481:United States