title: The decision to seek an exemption from PPS.
abstract: This paper examines the receipt of exemptions from Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for distinct part psychiatric units of general hospitals. A logit model of the exemption status of 1,045 psychiatric units is estimated using 1984 data. The results suggest that units that were expected to profit from a change in payment method (cost based on PPS) were least likely to obtain an exemption from PPS.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D008396:Maryland; D008404:Massachusetts; D006278:Medicare; D009515:New Jersey; D009518:New York; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D012044:Regression Analysis