Assessing the Viability of All-Payer Systems for Inpatient Hospital Services

摘要

This report explores the feasibility and possible structure of alternativeapproaches to developing all-payer prospective system for reimbursing hospitals for inpatients care. The study tests the practicality of adapting or extending Medicare's Prospective Payment System for (PPS) to either other players or all payers as part of the health care reform legislation proposed by the Clinton Administration in 1993.