title: Medicare prospective payment. One agency's response.
abstract: A Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) will have major operational implications for home care providers. Recent history has shown that health care providers' behavior is dramatically affected by the incentives inherent in new payment systems. One agency explains how it is changing its behavior in preparation for PPS legislation.
authors.affiliation: Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lavelle
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D003361:Cost Allocation; D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017050:Episode of Care; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007318:Inservice Training; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States