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- Title
From the Health Care Financing Administration.
- Authors
Wilensky, Gail R.
- Abstract
Reports on the proposal for the Medicare program to pay hospitals for capital costs under a prospective payment system. Expected benefits of the prospective payment system to runaway health care inflation; Cause of a conflicting set of payment incentives that encourage excessive capital spending; Proposal of Louis Sullivan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to include capital payments in the payment system.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICARE; HOSPITALS; OPERATING costs; SULLIVAN, Louis; UNITED States. Dept. of Health &; Human Services
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991, Vol 265, Issue 15, p1927
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1991.03460150025007