- Title
- Medicare physician and hospital utilization and expenditure trends.
- First Author
- Edwards, Winston O
- Date of Pub
- 1989 Winter
- Pages
- 111-116
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Other Authors
- Fisher, Charles R
- Abstract
- During the period 1983-86, the period directly following implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system, inpatient hospital care declined. Concurrently, fee-for-service utilization rates for physicians and other noninstitutional suppliers of medical goods and services and for outpatient facility care rose. Medicare expenditures for physicians and other suppliers and for outpatient facility care paralleled changes in utilization. In 1987, the proportion of Medicare patients receiving inpatient hospital care stabilized, but the proportion receiving outpatient hospital care continued to increase.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Ambulatory Care/utilization : Health Expenditures/statistics & numerical data : Hospitals/utilization : Medicare/statistics & numerical data : Prospective Payment System : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB90-204629
