- Title
- Prospective payment for Medicare skilled nursing facilities: background and issues.
- First Author
- Liu, Korbin
- Date of Pub
- 1986 Fall
- Pages
- 79-85
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Other Authors
- Doty, Pamela; Schieber, George J; Wiener, Joshua
- Abstract
- Strong interest by Congress in a Medicare prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities (SNF's) resulted in a major study by the Health Care Financing Administration on the Medicare SNF benefit. This article highlights findings from that study, which addressed the following: the Medicare SNF benefit, utilization and expenditures, the Medicare SNF industry, problems with the current Medicare SNF reimbursement system, efforts to develop a Medicare SNF case-mix measure, and case-mix differences between hospital-based and freestanding SNF's. In addition, we discuss the implications of the study findings for the design of a Medicare SNF prospective payment system (PPS).
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Medicare : Prospective Payment System : Costs and Cost Analysis : Data Collection : Skilled Nursing Facilities/economics : Statistics : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB88-131545
