✦ LIBER ✦

Medicare upcoding and hospital ownership

✍ Scribed by Elaine Silverman; Jonathan Skinner

Book ID: 116649490
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 149 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2003.09.007

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

CPT fee differentials and visit upcoding

CPT fee differentials and visit upcoding under Medicare Part B

✍ Christopher S. Brunt 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 131 KB

Medicare Part B pays outpatient physicians according to the billed Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, which differ in procedure and intensity. Since many performed services merely differ by intensity, physicians have an incentive to upcode services to increase profitability of a visit. Usin

HOSPITAL OWNERSHIP AND PERFORMANCE

✍ EDMUND R. BECKER; FRANK A. SLOAN 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 953 KB

Hospital ownership and psychiatric servi

Hospital ownership and psychiatric services

✍ C. Alan Lyles; John P. Young 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 814 KB

Hospital ownership and preventable adver

Hospital ownership and preventable adverse events

✍ Eric J. Thomas; E. John Orav; Troyen A. Brennan 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 197 KB

Hospital ownership type and treatment ch

Hospital ownership type and treatment choices

✍ Esra Eren Bayindir 📂 Article 📅 2012 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 525 KB

Hospital ownership, reimbursement system

Hospital ownership, reimbursement systems and mortality rates

✍ Carine Milcent 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 203 KB

This paper analyses the effect of ownership and system of reimbursement on mortality rates. From the statistical results we could conclude that the incentive created by fee-for-service reimbursement yields a four-point reduction in the mortality rate. However, this ranking of hospital quality is com