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Informationen zum Autor David G. Smith Klappentext The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule! two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost containment efforts. Smith shows how particular policy alternatives were developed; why chosen or rejected; and how provider interests and American political institutions have shaped their design and implementation. David G. Smith is professor of political science at Swarthmore College. He has been a board member on many health-related organiations. His main teaching areas include health policy! Constitutional law and jurisprudence! American government and politics! and political theory. Zusammenfassung ** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1 Introduction The Policy Environment 2 Prospective Payment System: Development Hospital Cost Containment A Decisive Turning Point A Decade of Development Developing a Proposal Legislating the Prospective Payment System Initial Implementation Chronology: Prospective Payment System Notes 3 Prospective Payment System: Implementation Implementation Activities Substantive Policy PPS: The Future Chronology: Implementation Notes 4 Physician Payment Reform: Background Medicare: Early Implementation The Reagan Administration Action by Congress Chronological: Physicians Payment: Background Notes 5 Physicians Payment: Designing the System Introduction— The PPRC Politics and the Deficit Elements of a Fee Schedule Legislating the Medicare Fee Schedule Chronology: Physician Payment: Designing the System Notes 6 Conclusion Two Payment Reforms: Alike and Not Alike Medicare and the American Political System Notes Glossary Terms Major Legislation Selected Bibliography Index ...
