DRGs: regulatory, deregulatory device.
Had President Carter been reelected, HCFA would have implemented the Medicare case mix index to broaden hospitals' total reimbursable cost limits. The new administration may approach the reimbursement issue as one of reducing federal spending, even though it imposes more regulation on the hospital industry.
D003933:Diagnosis; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services