Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals was phased-in during the 1884 Federal Fiscal Year. While many providers of psychiatric inpatientFrank, Richard G.Lave, Judith R.Taube, Carl A.Rupp, AgnesGoldman, Howard H.Social Science Electronic Publishing...
Rationale: The Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) contains incentives for hospitals to improve efficiency by placing them at financial risk to earn a positive margin on services rendered to Medicare patients. Concerns about the financial viability of small rural hospitals led to the ...
Medicares hospital costs under this payment system increased dramatically; between 1967 and 1983, costs rose from $3 billion to $37 billion annually.1 In 1982, Congress mandated the creation of a prospective payment system (PPS) to control costs. Congress looked at the success of State rate ...
Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) reform in 1983 tied hospital payments to the national average cost of each medical technology with the expectation of reducing health care costs. I show that an unintended consequence of PPS was to generate financial incentives for hospitals to expand trea...
This consumer education document is intended to provide a complete description of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals from the consumer's point of view and to provide basic information on how consumers can protect their rights to appropriate hospital care under Medicare. The fi...
At the same time Medicare came out with a prospective payment system (PPS) for LTACHs (see previous post) a similar new payment system was instituted for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs). Under the old payment system, TEFRA reimbursed IRFs for the cost of care for Medicare patients...
Hospital payments under Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS) are based on prices established for 474 diagnosis-related groups (DRG's). Previous analyses using 1981 data demonstrated that DRG prices based on charges alone were not that different from prices calculated from estimated costs. Dat...
However, the more the prospective payment system constrained hospitals' revenues, the more hospitals slowed increases in Medicare costs. In the most constrained hospitals, slower increases in Medicare costs were accompanied by slower increases in total hospital spending. The least constrained hospitals ...
The universe of Medicare claims for four states from 1983 through 1986 is used to examine the impacts Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS) makes on hospital lengths of stay and on Part B expenditures for physician services associated with hospital stays. The descriptive results show that le...
MPAFstands for Medicare PPS (Prospective Payment System) Assessment Form (various locations) Suggest new definition This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: Military and Government See otherdefinitions of MPAF ...