- Title
- Use and cost of short-stay hospital inpatient services under Medicare, 1986.
- First Author
- Helbing, Charles
- Date of Pub
- 1989 Summer
- Pages
- 93-109
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Other Authors
- Keene, Roger E
- Abstract
- This article is part of a continuing effort to monitor the operation of the Medicare program. A synopsis is given of the legislation that implemented the prospective payment system for short-stay hospitals, and the data show the program experience for 1986, the third full year of implementation under prospective payment.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Data Collection : Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data : Hospitals/utilization : Inpatients : Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data : Medicare/utilization : Patient Discharge/statistics & numerical data : Prospective Payment System/legislation & jurisprudence : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB89-232342
