| Autor: |
Don Pratt, Cyndi Kindred, Kimberly Miller |
| Rok vydání: |
2001 |
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| Zdroj: |
Health Informatics ISBN: 9781441928771 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4757-3439-3_13 |
| Popis: |
The healthcare industry has recently experienced an onslaught of pressures to reduce costs, a demand fueled by a host of factors shaping and changing the current healthcare market. These familiar factors include, but are not limited to, the following: Increased managed care discounting Tightened government reimbursements as a result of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 Losses on bad physician and HMO investments The 1983 inpatient hospital prospective payment system and the corresponding change from reasonable cost reimbursement for inpatient hospital care Audits that introduced a wave of scrutiny into billing and coding practices in the Medicare system |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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