Uncompensated Care: Hospitals' Responses To Fiscal Pressures

Autor:	Jack Zwanziger, Glenn Melnick, Anil Bamezai, Joyce Mann
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Health economics Public economics Medicaid Data Collection Health Policy Uncompensated Care Medicare California United States Competition (economics) Health insurance Managed care Business Prospective payment system Hospital Costs health care economics and organizations
Zdroj:	Health Affairs. 14:263-270
ISSN:	1544-5208 0278-2715
DOI:	10.1377/hlthaff.14.1.263
Popis:	This DataWatch examines the impact of hospital competition, the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS), and Medi-Cal selective contracting on the provision of uncompensated care by private hospitals in California during 1980-1989. It finds that hospitals subject to more intense competition and greater fiscal pressure from Medicare and Medi-Cal reduced their provision of uncompensated care relative to hospitals facing less pressure from these sources. We estimate that had hospitals not been subjected to increasing price competition from growth of managed care plans and financial tightening in public programs, they would have provided 36 percent more uncompensated care than was actually provided in 1989.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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