Effects of the Medicare Prospective Payment System on Hospital Cost Containment: An Early Appraisal Academic Article

abstract

• In the 1970s and early 1980s it was commonly believed that the control of hospital costs could only be achieved by regulatory mechanisms that applied to the hospital system as a whole. There was a clear rationale for this view, namely that, if one controlled only one segment, costs would merely be shifted to the unregulated segment and no overall cost reductions would occur. Certificate-of-need and state rate-setting programs had this underlying philosophy

authors

• Morrisey, Michael

published proceedings

• The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Sloan, F. A., Morrisey, M. A., & Valvona, J.

citation count

• 54

complete list of authors

• Sloan, FA||Morrisey, MA||Valvona, J

publication date

• January 1988

publisher

• JSTOR  Publisher

published in

• The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly  Journal

keywords

• Cost Control
• Economics, Hospital
• Hospitals, Voluntary
• Medicare
• Program Evaluation
• Prospective Payment System
• Quality Of Health Care
• Regression Analysis
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 3054469

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/3350030

start page

• 191

end page

• 220

volume

• 66

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3350030