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Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Grace M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals.
- Hospitals--Prospective payment--Rehabilitation services.
- Inpatients.
- Rehabilitation Centers.
- Prospective Payment System.
- Patients.
- Health Facilities.
- Reimbursement Mechanisms.
- Persons.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Insurance, Health, Reimbursement.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Financing, Organized.
- Names.
- Economics.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Inpatients.
- Rehabilitation Centers.
- Prospective Payment System.
- Patients.
- Health Facilities.
- Reimbursement Mechanisms.
- Persons.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Insurance, Health, Reimbursement.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Financing, Organized.
- Names.
- Economics.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Local Subjects:
- Hospitals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress mandated that Health CareFinancing Administration (HCFA) implement a Prospective Payment System (PPS)for inpatient rehabilitation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS, the successor agency to HCFA) issued the final rule governing such aPPS on August 7, 2001.
- Contents:
- Preface; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Members of Technical Expert Panel; Acronyms; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Data and Methods; Chapter Three: Case Classification System; Chapter Four: Comorbidities; Chapter Five: Unusual Cases; Chapter Six: Relative Case Weights; Chapter Seven: Facility-Level Adjustments; Chapter Eight: Outliers; Chapter Nine: Conversion Factor; Chapter Ten: Developing a Monitoring Plan and System for the IRF PPS; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781598753646
- 1598753649
- OCLC:
- 171567096
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