Comment on "Hospital reimbursement under Medicare".
The federal plan to establish uniform national rates under DRGs is a triumph of conceptual neatness over sound policy; it will produce no net savings to the Medicare trust fund. Proposals to contain hospital costs have yet to deal with uncompensated care, quality assurance, and the explicit integration of long-term care.
D003363:Cost Control; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006291:Health Policy; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States