The American health-care system: in sickness or in health?
With budget deficits dominating Federal policies, Congress has decided that Medicare costs have surpassed acceptable limits. To help solve the problem, Congress approved the Prospective Payment System in 1983. Bisbee explores Medicare's role in present and future developments in health-care delivery and examines hospitals' and physicians' response to the latest governmental initiatives.
D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States