title: Hospital budget and rate regulation: why Colorado failed.
abstract: A state legislature created an agency to develop a system for regulating hospital budgets and rates, then terminated it two years later. The agency's chairman analyzes the Colorado experience and what can be learned from it.
mesh_terms: D003120:Colorado; D003142:Communication; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D006288:Health Planning Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D011907:Rate Setting and Review / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013220:State Health Planning and Development Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States