Prospective Payment System Evaluation Studies-Distressed Hospitals under PPS

摘要

The paper describes the experience of 'financially distressed' hospitals under the Prospective Payment System (PPS). In particular the paper investigates the following: the attributes of financially distressed hospitals under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982; the anticipated effect of PPS on these hospitals; the actual experience of these distressed hospitals under PPS; the attributes of hospitals that were financially distressed by the third year of PPS (PPS3); the stability of the cohort of distressed hospitals over time.