The impact of prospective pricing on hospital health education: the New Jersey experience.
Educators are concerned that the cost consciousness arena of prospective payment systems will cause cutbacks in hospital consumer education programs. This paper examines how DRGs, the New Jersey prospective pricing system, has affected patient education at New Jersey hospitals.
D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006266:Health Education / Q000191:economics*; D006761:Hospitals; D009515:New Jersey; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms