Analyses for the initial implementation of the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system / Grace M. Carter [and others].

Analyses for the initial implementation of the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system / Grace M. Carter [and others].

In the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Congress mandated that Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implement a Prospective Payment System (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, the successor agency to HCFA) issued the final rule governing such a...

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Contributors: Carter, Grace M., Buntin, Melinda Beeuwkes, Hayden, Orla, Kawata, Jennifer H., 1955-, Paddock, Susan M., Relles, Daniel A., Ridgeway, Greg, 1973-, Totten, Mark, 1969-, Wynn, Barbara O.
Corporate Contributors: Rand Corporation., RAND Health., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2002.
Subjects:
Hospitals > Rehabilitation services > Prospective payment > United States.
Hospital patients.
Prospective Payment System
Inpatients
Rehabilitation Centers > economics
United States
Local Note:JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Data and Methods
  • Case Classification System
  • Comorbidities
  • Unusual Cases
  • Relative Case Weights
  • Facility-Level Adjustments
  • Outliers
  • Conversion Factor
  • Developing a Monitoring Plan and System for the IRF PPS.

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