- Title
- Redesigning Medicare Inpatient PPS to Adjust Payment for Post-Admission Complications
- First Author
- Averill, R. F.
- Date of Pub
- 2006 Spring
- Pages
- 83-93
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Other Authors
- Vertrees, J. C., McCullough, E. C., Hughes, J. S., and Goldfield, N. I.
- Abstract
- Under the Medicare diagnosis-related group based inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), payments to hospitals can increase when a post-admission complication occurs. This article proposes a redesign of IPPS that reduces, but does not eliminate, the increase in payment due to post-admission complications.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- N/A
- NTIS Number
- N/A
