title: Use and cost of short-stay hospital inpatient services under Medicare, 1986.
abstract: This article is part of a continuing effort to monitor the operation of the Medicare program. A synopsis is given of the legislation that implemented the prospective payment system for short-stay hospitals, and the data show the program experience for 1986, the third full year of implementation under prospective payment.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007297:Inpatients; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States