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** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for its outstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature. The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at policy innovation in history continue to shape decisions about Medicare and cost... Read more
Acknowledgments1 IntroductionThe Policy Environment2 Prospective Payment System: DevelopmentHospital Cost ContainmentA Decisive Turning PointA Decade of DevelopmentDeveloping a ProposalLegislating the Prospective Payment SystemInitial ImplementationChronology: Prospective Payment SystemNotes3 Prospective Payment System: ImplementationImplementation ActivitiesSubstantive PolicyPPS: The FutureChronology: ImplementationNotes4 Physician Payment Reform: BackgroundMedicare: Early ImplementationThe Reagan AdministrationAction by CongressChronological: Physicians Payment: BackgroundNotes5 Physicians Payment: Designing the SystemIntroduction— The PPRCPolitics and the DeficitElements of a Fee ScheduleLegislating the Medicare Fee ScheduleChronology: Physician Payment: Designing the SystemNotes6 ConclusionTwo Payment Reforms: Alike and Not AlikeMedicare and the American Political SystemNotesGlossaryTermsMajor LegislationSelected BibliographyIndex
Biography
David G. Smith
