title: Prospective payment. An idea whose time has come.
abstract: The home care industry has experience with Medicaid per-visit rates and hospice daily and hourly rates capped by an overall patient limit. But no extensive home care prospective rates have been developed. Is this gap an opening for the industry to provide some valuable input?
authors: B R
authors: BR
authors: Lorenz
authors: A B
authors: AB
authors: Meeker
mesh_terms: D017050:Episode of Care; D006302:Health Services Research; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D006738:Hospices / Q000191:economics*; D006792:House Calls; D008484:Medicaid; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D011907:Rate Setting and Review / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States