Assessing the Viability of All-Payer Systems for Inpatient Hospital Services.(Includes Appendices)

摘要

;Contents: Intruduction; Construction of DRG Weights; Derivation of CasemixIndices; Constructing Estimates of the Average Cost of an Inpatient Discharge; DRG Based Prospective Payment Rates for Medicare and Nonmedicare Patients: Should Payment Amounts Differ by Payer and Type of Hospital; Achieving Medicare Savings: Incorporating Measures of Hospital Efficiency in Calculation of PPS Standardized Payment Rates.