- Title
- Does one national prospective payment system market basket make sense?
- First Author
- Cromwell, Jerry L
- Date of Pub
- 1988 Winter
- Pages
- 25-35
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- N/A
- Abstract
- For the first 4 years of Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), one national market basket of cost weights and price proxies has been used to update payment rates. Previous evidence for a single rate is reviewed, and more recent data are presented that show definite regional differences in input price inflation, resulting in systematic gains or losses for some regions. However, as long as the Health Care Financing Administration continues to periodically update its hospital wage index, the net impact on hospitals is minor. Nevertheless, large differences in PPS-excluded hospital cost shares indicate the need for two sets of cost weights.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- American Hospital Association : Catchment Area (Health)/economics : Comparative Study : Costs and Cost Analysis/statistics & numerical data : Economics, Hospital/statistics & numerical data : Medicare/statistics & numerical data : Models, Statistical : Prospective Payment System/methods : Salaries and Fringe Benefits/statistics & numerical data : Support, Non-U.S. Gov't : United States : United States Health Care Financing Administration
- NTIS Number
- PB89-188486
